This outcome is in accordancewith both the trigger-maintenance
and the knowledge-deprivation hypotheses. However, Rotgans and
Schmidt also observed that after the initial increase, situational interest
decreased significantly throughout the day, while students
were acquiring more knowledge about the topic. This observed increase
and subsequent decrease in situational interest could in their
view only be explained by means of a knowledge-deprivation account;
an initial increase of situational interest is caused by a
perceived knowledge deficiency and once students gain relevant
knowledge to reduce their deficiency, their situational interest is
satisfied and thus decreases. This explanation for their findings was
largely hypothetical because they did not actuallymeasure changes in
situational interest as a function of changes in knowledge. The studies
presented in this article constitute an attempt to remediate this
shortcoming. They focused on (1) the role of a knowledge deficit in
causing situational interest, (2)awareness of this knowledge deficit as
anecessaryconditionfor situational interest to occur, and(3)decrease
of situational interest as a function of increasing knowledge.
This outcome is in accordancewith both the trigger-maintenance
and the knowledge-deprivation hypotheses. However, Rotgans and
Schmidt also observed that after the initial increase, situational interest
decreased significantly throughout the day, while students
were acquiring more knowledge about the topic. This observed increase
and subsequent decrease in situational interest could in their
view only be explained by means of a knowledge-deprivation account;
an initial increase of situational interest is caused by a
perceived knowledge deficiency and once students gain relevant
knowledge to reduce their deficiency, their situational interest is
satisfied and thus decreases. This explanation for their findings was
largely hypothetical because they did not actuallymeasure changes in
situational interest as a function of changes in knowledge. The studies
presented in this article constitute an attempt to remediate this
shortcoming. They focused on (1) the role of a knowledge deficit in
causing situational interest, (2)awareness of this knowledge deficit as
anecessaryconditionfor situational interest to occur, and(3)decrease
of situational interest as a function of increasing knowledge.
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