What is it about?
This study finds that epistemic curiosity is experienced and expressed in similar ways cross-culturally.
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Why is it important?
It shows that epistemic curiosity -- whether oriented towards stimulating interest or satiating a feeling of knowledge-deprivation -- are experienced and expressed the same ways in different languages and cultures.
Perspectives
This paper, along with Litman (2010), Litman (2008), and Litman, Crowson & Kolinski (2010), shows the meaningfulness of examining curiosity as a feeling of "interest" and as a feeling of knowledge "deprivation" are valid ideas about the nature, experience, and expression of intellectual curiosity (i.e., epistemic curiosity), which can be measured reliably with brief 5-item scales..
Dr Jordan Litman
http://drjlitman.net/
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This page is a summary of: Validity of the Interest- and Deprivation-type epistemic curiosity distinction in non-students, Personality and Individual Differences, October 2010, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.021.
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