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interest-type and deprivation-type curiosity: a standalone construct

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Personality psychology

a two-factor account of epistemic curiosity separating curiosity driven by the pleasure of new ideas from curiosity driven by the discomfort of a knowledge gap.

In personality psychology, interest-type and deprivation-type curiosity refers to a two-factor account of epistemic curiosity separating curiosity driven by the pleasure of new ideas from curiosity driven by the discomfort of a knowledge gap. This meaning comes from Litman (2008) in Personality and Individual Differences.[1]

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curiosity1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct knowledge gap hypothesis1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct knowledge6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Litman, J. A. (2008). Interest and deprivation factors of epistemic curiosity. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(7), 1585-1595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.014

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