Curiosity and Exploration: Facilitating Positive Subjective Experiences and Personal Growth Opportunities

By T. Kashdan, Paul Rose, F. Fincham. 2004

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

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Viral marketing: Motivations to forward online content (2010, background): “Curiosity is defined as the desire to know or learn, and research shows that those with higher trait curiosity are more likely to allocate attention to novel and challenging stimuli (Kashdan et al., 2004).”
Curiosity and the pleasures of learning: Wanting and liking new information (2005, result): “Congruent with this observation, a recent study by Kashdan et al. (2004) found that their Curiosity and Exploration Inventory, which is a CFI-type measure, correlated substantially and positively (r > .5) with an openness scale.”
Curiosity and pathways to well-being and meaning in life: Traits, states, and everyday behaviors (2007, methodology): “We modified CEI items with the highest factor loadings (Kashdan et al. 2004).”
The Latent Structure of Trait Curiosity: Evidence for Interest and Deprivation Curiosity Dimensions (2006, background): “LITMAN AND SILVIAINTEREST AND DEPRIVATION CURIOSITY The Latent Structure of Trait Curiosity: Evidence for Interest and Deprivation Curiosity Dimensions Jordan A. Litman Department of Psychology University of South Florida Paul J. Silvia Department of Psychology University of North Carolina at Greens”
An applied framework for Positive Education (2013, background): “For example, Keyes (2002) defines flourishing as comprising three components: (1) emotional (hedonic) wellbeing or the presence of positive feelings about oneself and life; (2) social wellbeing, which includes feeling connected to others and valued by the community; and (3) psychological (eudaimonic”
Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018, background): “Positive emotions are also related to curiosity (see Kashdan, Rose, & Fincham, 2004, for non-experimental work).”
Children's Motivation toward Science across Contexts, Manner of Interaction, and Topic. (2014, background): “Litman and Spielberger (2003); Engelhard and Monsaas (1988); Kashdan et al. (2004) Identity The formation and role of identity in a child's experience with science is multifaceted.”
Disentangling Curiosity: Dimensionality, Definitions, and Distinctions from Interest in Educational Contexts (2014, methodology): “Second, several definitions suggested that these variables are not only something to be resolved, but that curiosity also involves seeking these variables (Kashdan et al. 2004; Kashdan and Yuen 2007).”