“‘Novelty U-Curve’ Tag”,2019-11-09 (culture, music, RL exploration; backlinks)⁠:

Bibliography for tag psychology/novelty, most recent first: 102 annotations & 28 links (parent).

• See Also
• Gwern
  • “Can You Unsort Lists for Diversity?”, Gwern2019
  • “Review Of Crumb”, Gwern2024
  • “Why Cats Knock Stuff Over”, Gwern2023
  • “Cat Psychology & Domestication: Are We Good Owners?”, Gwern2018
  • “Why Do Hipsters Steal Stuff?”, Gwern2022
• Links
  • “Boxed: Things I Learned After Lying in an MRI Machine for 30 Hours”, Giancotti2024
  • “The Lessons of Hermann Grassmann and the Nature of Abstractions”, Emanual2024
  • “Appendix: The Art of Slowness: Slow Motion Enhances Consumer Evaluations by Increasing Processing Fluency”, Stuppy et al 2023
  • “The Art of Slowness: Slow Motion Enhances Consumer Evaluations by Increasing Processing Fluency”, Stuppy et al 2023
  • “Deviancy Aversion and Social Norms”, Gollwitzer et al 2022
  • “Contrastive Search Is What You Need For Neural Text Generation”, Su & Collier2022
  • “Cannabis Use Does Not Increase Actual Creativity but Biases Evaluations of Creativity”, Heng et al 2022
  • “Mastering Uncertainty: A Predictive Processing Account of Enjoying Uncertain Success in Video Game Play”, Deterding et al 2022
  • “What’s Next? Artists’ Music After Grammy Awards”, Negro et al 2022
  • “Macaques Preferentially Attend to Intermediately Surprising Information”, Wu et al 2022
  • “Balancing Categorical Conventionality in Music”, Silver et al 2022
  • “The Esthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness As Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality”, Krpan & Tilburg2022
  • “Collaborations and Innovation in Partitioned Industries: An Analysis of U.S. Feature Film Coproductions”, Jia et al 2022
  • “A Stanford Psychologist Says He’s Cracked the Code of One-Hit Wonders: What Separates Blind Melon from Shania Twain?”, Thompson2022
  • “Nymph Piss and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022
  • “Night Shifts: Can Technology Shape Our Dreams?”, Clune2022
  • “One-Hit Wonders versus Hit Makers: Sustaining Success in Creative Industries”, Berg2022
  • “Eliciting False Insights With Semantic Priming”, Grimmer et al 2022
  • “Typical Decoding for Natural Language Generation”, Meister et al 2022
  • “Hipsters and the Cool: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Identity Expression, Trends, and Fads”, Golman et al 2021
  • “Algorithmic Balancing of Familiarity, Similarity, & Discovery in Music Recommendations”, Mehrotra2021
  • “Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation”, Soda et al 2021
  • “Embracing New Techniques in Deep Learning for Estimating Image Memorability”, Needell & Bainbridge2021
  • “Emotionally Numb: Expertise Dulls Consumer Experience”, Rocklage et al 2021
  • “Entropy Trade-Offs in Artistic Design: A Case Study of Tamil kolam”, Tran et al 2021
  • “Mirostat: A Neural Text Decoding Algorithm That Directly Controls Perplexity”, Basu et al 2020
  • “An Insight-Related Neural Reward Signal”, Oh et al 2020
  • “Aversion towards Simple Broken Patterns Predicts Moral Judgment”, Gollwitzer et al 2020
  • “Stay True to Your Roots? Category Distance, Hierarchy, and the Performance of New Entrants in the Music Industry”, Younkin & Kashkooli2020
  • “People Prefer Simpler Content When There Are More Choices: A Time Series Analysis of Lyrical Complexity in Six Decades of American Popular Music”, Varnum et al 2019
  • “The Similarity Network of Motion Pictures”, Wei2019
  • “The Curious Case of Neural Text Degeneration”, Holtzman et al 2019
  • “Accelerating Dynamics of Collective Attention”, Lorenz-Spreen et al 2019
  • “Fashion and Art Cycles Are Driven by Counter-Dominance Signals of Elite Competition: Quantitative Evidence from Music Styles”, Klimek et al 2019
  • “Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?”, Westbury & Hollis2019
  • “Enjoy It Again: Repeat Experiences Are Less Repetitive Than People Think”, O’Brien2019
  • “Predictability and Uncertainty in the Pleasure of Music: A Reward for Learning?”, Gold et al 2019
  • “Relating Pattern Deviancy Aversion to Stigma and Prejudice”, Gollwitzer et al 2017
  • “What Makes Popular Culture Popular? Product Features and Optimal Differentiation in Music”, Askin & Mauskapf2017
  • “CAN: Creative Adversarial Networks, Generating “Art” by Learning About Styles and Deviating from Style Norms”, Elgammal et al 2017
  • “It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking”, Huang et al 2017
  • “Exploration and Exploitation of Victorian Science in Darwin’s Reading Notebooks”, Murdock et al 2016
  • “Optimal Distinctiveness Revisited: an Integrative Framework for Understanding the Balance between Differentiation and Conformity in Individual and Organizational Identities”, Zuckerman2016
  • “What Does It Mean to Span Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption”, Goldberg et al 2016
  • “Anthony Downs, ‘Up and Down With Ecology: The ‘Issue-Attention’ Cycle’”, Gupta & Jenkins-Smith2015
  • “Spoiler Alert: Consequences of Narrative Spoilers for Dimensions of Enjoyment, Appreciation, and Transportation”, Johnson & Rosenbaum2015
  • “Why Read New Books?”, Parks2014
  • “The Hipster Effect: When Anticonformists All Look the Same”, Touboul2014
  • “Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking”, Oppezzo & Schwartz2014
  • “Social Psychology. Just Think: the Challenges of the Disengaged Mind”, Wilson et al 2014
  • “Atypical Combinations and Scientific Impact”, Uzzi et al 2013
  • “Identifiable but Not Identical: Combining Social Identity and Uniqueness Motives in Choice”, Chan et al 2012
  • “The Logic of Fashion Cycles”, Acerbi et al 2012
  • “Dear Young Eccentric”, Hanson2012
  • “The Creativity Crisis: The Decrease in Creative Thinking Scores on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking”, Kim2011
  • “Things You Can’t Countersignal”, Alicorn2010
  • “Formal Theory of Creativity & Fun & Intrinsic Motivation (1990^–₂₀2010_14ya)”, Schmidhuber2010
  • “Does Your IPod Really Play Favorites?”, Froelich et al 2009
  • “Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes”, Schmidhuber2008
  • “Jacks of All Trades and Masters of None: Audiences’ Reactions to Spanning Genres in Feature Film Production”, Hsu2006
  • “Relationship Between Complexity and Liking As a Function of Expertise”, Ohlsson2005
  • “The Psychologist Who Empathized With Rats: James Tiptree Junior As Alice B. Sheldon, PhD”, Elms2004
  • “Endogenous Explanation in the Sociology of Culture”, Kaufman2004
  • “Cultural Entrepreneurship: Stories, Legitimacy, and the Acquisition of Resources”, Lounsbury & Glynn2001
  • “Staring Emmy Straight in the Eye—And Doing My Best Not to Flinch”, Hofstadter & Cope2001
  • “Subjective Complexity, Familiarity, and Liking for Popular Music”, North & Hargreaves1995
  • “The Social Self: On Being the Same and Different at the Same Time”, Brewer1991
  • “Development of Liking for Familiar and Unfamiliar Melodies”, Hargreaves & Castell1987
  • “The Effects of Repetition on Liking for Music”, Hargreaves1984
  • “Novelty and Human Esthetic Preferences”, Sluckin et al 1983
  • “Some Experimental Studies of Familiarity and Liking”, Sluckin et al 1982
  • “Liking Words As a Function of the Experienced Frequency of Their Occurrence”, Sluckin et al 1980
  • “Psychological Factors Affecting Preferences for First Names”, Colman et al 1980
  • “The Reaction of Monkeys to ‘Fearsome’ Pictures”, Humphrey & Keeble1974
  • “Up and down With Ecology—The ‘Issue-Attention Cycle’”, Downs1972
  • “That’s Interesting!: Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology”, Davis1971
  • “Preference for Familiar versus Novel Stimuli As a Function of the Familiarity of the Environment”, Sheldon1969
  • “The Creative Personality and the Ideal Pupil”, Torrance1969
  • “It’s Hard to Know Why Music Gives Pleasure: Is That the Point?”
  • “ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-Signal: Attacking Noise in Chat”
  • “The Secret of Minecraft, and Its Challenge to the Rest of Us”, Sloan2024
  • “The Economy of Weirdness”
  • “You Need a Novelty Budget”
  • “Creativity Is Rejected: Teachers and Bosses Don’t Value Out-Of-The-Box Thinking.”
  • “The What-You’d-Implicitly-Heard-Before Telling Thing”
  • “Right Is The New Left”
  • “What Happened To 90s Environmentalism?”
  • “New Atheism: The Godlessness That Failed”
  • “How To Know When It’s Time To Go”
  • “Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome”
  • “How Do Internet Atheism and Internet Feminism Help Us Understand the Current Cultural Moment?”
  • “Google, Amazon, and Facebook Owe Jürgen Schmidhuber a Fortune”
  • “A Non-Conformist’s Guide to Success in a Conformist World”
  • “Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism”
  • “You Have a Set Amount of “Weirdness Points”. Spend Them Wisely.”
  • “When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’”
  • “Melodies of Popular Songs Have Gotten Simpler Over Time”
  • “Even When Contrarians Win, They Lose”
  • “The Shazam Effect”
  • “From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut?”, Andersen2024
  • “XKCD #1053: Ten Thousand”
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