Ohad Livnat, a PhD student at the Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, conducts research on individual differences in meta-cognitive appraisals of trust in phenomenology – our spontaneous tendency to trust our conscious experiences or assume and act upon them as if they were objectively true. In addition, he is actively involved in broad research of a completely new theory of curiosity, a framework that enables modeling everything from clickbait-driven epistemic urges to long-lasting personal fields of interest, all within the same theory.