The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people

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Process Account of Curiosity and Interest: A Reward-Learning Perspective (2018, background): “Some other researchers also identified social or interpersonal curiosity (i.e., curiosity for social relationship) as distinct types of curiosity (Kashdan et al. 2018; Litman and Pezzo 2007).”
Self-Actualizing People in the 21st Century: Integration With Contemporary Theory and Research on Personality and Well-Being (2018, methodology): “Joyous Exploration, however, showed the “strongest links to believing that a good life is a function of personal growth and contributing to others” (Kashdan et al., 2018, p. 144).”
A Case for Domain-Specific Curiosity in Mathematics (2019, background): “Trait curiosity, on the other hand, has been characterized both as having a generally curious disposition (Kashdan et al. 2018), as well as frequently experiencing feelings or states of curiosity, which may be short or long in duration (Ainley 1987; Litman and Jimerson 2004).”
Cultivating an understanding of curiosity as a seed for creativity (2020, background): “[21] identified at least five distinct factors of curiosity.”