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This review complements a series of studies on question asking, spearheaded by @tuvalraz.bsky.social .bsky.social on the role of complex questions in creativity (tinyurl.com/ycxnwysd) or how it facilitates open-ended problem solving (tinyurl.com/35cr3szf).

May we all ask complex questions in 2025!

We conclude by highlighting general future directions in question asking research. Critically, the aim of our review is to highlight the impact of asking questions, and especially complex questions on a whole range of cognitive domains, guiding information seeking behavior.

Next we review studies on question asking in different contexts, focusing on child development, social interaction, and interaction with AI (e.g., chatbots).

We then review studies on the cognitive mechanistic role of question asking, focusing on its relation to curiosity, its impact on creativity, its influence on effective learning, and how it facilitates problem solving (especially ill-defined problems).

Theoretically, questioning can be defined as a cognitive process that is a) motivated by information seeking, b) is based on prior knowledge, c) questions themselves are tools eliciting required information, and d) questions serve to minimize ambiguity driving information seeking

We begin by reviewing classic theories on question asking, and propose a new framework - the Questions in Information Seeking (QuInS) framework.