The Measurement of Curiosity As a Feeling of Deprivation

By Jordan Litman, Tiffany L. Jimerson. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Incurious Motives to Seek Information about Potential Threats (2010, background): “Curiosity as a feeling-of-deprivation scale (CFD; Litman & Jimerson, 2004) is a 15-item instrument that measures a need to improve understanding of complex or puzzling matters, as reflected in a desire to increase competence, a lack of tolerance for seemingly unsolvable problems, and persistence in…”
Introducing the construct curiosity for predicting job performance (2013, background): “Furthermore, epistemic curiosity is uncorrelated with anger and depression and uncorrelated or slightly negatively correlated with anxiety (Kashdan et al., 2009; Litman & Spielberger, 2003; Litman & Jimerson, 2004; Litman & Pezzo, 2007).”
Process Account of Curiosity and Interest: A Reward-Learning Perspective (2018, background): “This may be because their model was originally motivated by Loewenstein’s (1994) knowledge gap theory (Litman and Jimerson 2004), and the concept of wanting was integrated after D-type of curiosity was proposed (Litman 2005).”
Motivationally selective risk judgments: Do fear and curiosity boost the boons or the banes? (2007, background): “Curiosity has been conceptualized as signaling the presence of an “information-gap”—that is, a lack of desired knowledge or experience (Loewenstein, 1996; see also Berlyne, 1960; Litman, 2005; Litman & Jimerson, 2004 ).”
Children's Scientific Curiosity: In Search of an Operational Definition of an Elusive Concept. (2012, background): “These constructs have been found to be psychometrically different, and while they are correlated (r values = .69; Litman & Jimerson, 2004), empirical work has found that items associated with D-type curiosity led to much higher levels of exploration than those associated with I-type (Litman,…”
Dimensionality of interpersonal curiosity (2007, background): “Curiosity as a feeling-of-deprivation scale (CFD; Litman & Jimerson, 2004 ) is a 15-item instrument (a range = 0.84–0.88) that, like the EC scale, also assesses the desire to obtain intellectual knowledge unrelated to people (e.g., obtain facts, solve problems).”
The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people (2018, positive): “This ﬁts with a series of measures that designate individual differences in the need for cognition and epistemic curiosity (e.g., Cacioppo et al., 1996; Litman & Jimerson, 2004; Litman & Spielberger, 2003).”
Disentangling Curiosity: Dimensionality, Definitions, and Distinctions from Interest in Educational Contexts (2014, methodology): “However, the possibility for negative emotions is evident for both interest (Hidi 2006) and curiosity (Bowler 2010; Levitt et al. 2009; Litman and Jimerson 2004).”
Interest and deprivation factors of epistemic curiosity (2008, background): “In keeping with their theoretical view of D-type curiosity, Litman and Jimerson (2004) developed a 15-item Curiosity as a Feeling-of-Deprivation Scale (CFDS) (a range = .85–.88), which comprises three 5-item subscales (a range = .64–.78): The first measures a desire to reduce ignorance and increas”
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).”
The Teasing Effect: An Underappreciated Benefit of Creating and Resolving an Uncertainty (2018, background): “On one hand, curiosity is a state of information deprivation (Litman and Jimerson 2004; Loewenstein 1994) and thus may cause discomfort and displeasure (Berlyne 1954a, 1966b; Litman and Jimerson 2004).”
Epistemic curiosity and related constructs: Lacking evidence of discriminant validity (2010, methodology): “In addition to diverse and specific curiosity, Litman and Jimerson (2004) recently introduced the dimension of curiosity as a feeling of deprivation.”
Curiosity and the pleasures of learning: Wanting and liking new information (2005, background): “…of Lowenstein's (1994) ``knowledge gap/approach gradient'' model and Spielberger and Starr's (1994) ``optimal stimulation/two process'' model, Litman and Jimerson (2004) proposed that curiosity could be aroused when individuals feel as though they are deprived of information, and wish to…”
Students' level of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance (2016, background): “The ECS was developed to assess curiosity as a feeling of interest (Litman & Spielberger, 2003), whereas the CFDS was developed to assess curiosity as a feeling of deprivation (Litman & Jimerson, 2004).”