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Curiosity is one possible motivation that forces you to actually look at evidence. Fear is more reliable and can be used when curiosity is hard to manufacture.
Fear can be powerful but it is far from reliable and usually not used best for ongoing motivation of any kind.
It depends on the kind of fear. The fear of going off my beeminder roads is good enough to motivate me to stay on them. YMMV.
It quite possibly would (vary). I have developed something of a "@#%@# you!" attitude to threats that are ongoing and try to reserve fear as an exception-oriented motivation device.