What is it about?
Intellectual curiosity has two major dimensions and can be measured with reliable and valid 5-item scales -- see also Litman, 2010; Litman Crowson, & Kolinski 2010; Piotrowski, Litman & Valkenburg, 2014; and Litman & Mussel, 2013.
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Why is it important?
This offers a very clear idea of the nature of intellectual (i.e., epistemic) curiosity, gets at what others tend to overlook and dismiss (i.e., that wide eyed wonder and brow-furrowing puzzling over a conundrum) are meaningfully distinct expressions of intellectual curiosity.
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This offers a very clear idea of the nature of intellectual (i.e., epistemic) curiosity, gets at what others tend to overlook and dismiss (i.e., that wide eyed wonder and brow-furrowing puzzling over a conundrum) are meaningfully distinct expressions of intellectual curiosity. See also Litman, 2005 on "the pleasures of learning" for relevant details on the theorized underlying neuroscience. Enough with the "optimal arousal" models... modern neuroscience can be applied to this problem (see also work by Gruber, Kang, and Jepma).
Dr Jordan Litman
http://drjlitman.net/
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This page is a summary of: Interest and deprivation factors of epistemic curiosity, Personality and Individual Differences, May 2008, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.014.
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