Dimensionality of interpersonal curiosity

By Jordan Litman, M. Pezzo. 2007

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Interpersonal curiosity (IPC) is the desire for new information about people. Fifty-one IPC items were administered to 321 participants (248 women, 73 men), along with other measures of curiosity and personality. Three factors were identified from which five-item subscales were developed that had good internal consistency: Curiosity about Emotions, Spying and Prying, and Snooping. Confirmatory factor analysis indicated the three-factor model had acceptable fit. The IPC scales correlated positively with other curiosity measures and interest in gossip, providing evidence of convergent validity. Divergent validity was demonstrated in finding the other curiosity scales correlated more highly with each other than with IPC; parallel results were found for the gossip measures.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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The five-dimensional curiosity scale: Capturing the bandwidth of curiosity and identifying four unique subgroups of curious people (2018, unknown): “…captured these two dimensions of curiosity (e.g., Litman, 2005), additional manifestations warrant inclusion: the perceived potential to cope with the new (Silvia, 2008a, 2008b), Social Curiosity (Litman & Pezzo, 2007; Renner, 2006), and Thrill Seeking (Arnett, 1994; Farley, 1991; Zuckerman, 1994).”
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): “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).”
Students' level of boredom, boredom coping strategies, epistemic curiosity, and graded performance (2016, background): “It has been variously labeled as, for example, interpersonal curiosity (Litman & Pezzo, 2007), social curiosity (Renner, 2006), and epistemic curiosity (Berlyne, 1954; Litman, 2008), and examined in different lines of research such as psychology (e.g., Litman, 2005; Loewenstein, 1994), neurobiology…”
The interactional effects of atmospherics and perceptual curiosity on emotions and online shopping intention (2010, background): “Interpersonal curiosity is the intrinsic motive to seek people-information such as information about people’s public and private lives and the emotions of others in order to reduce uncertainty about people (Litman & Pezzo, 2007).”
Disentangling Curiosity: Dimensionality, Definitions, and Distinctions from Interest in Educational Contexts (2014, background): “Third, the decision was made to exclude studies that addressed the relation between curiosity and solely emotional learning (e.g., Leonard and Harvey 2007) or interpersonal learning (e.g., Litman and Pezzo 2007).”