Curiosity About People: The Development of a Social Curiosity Measure in Adults
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Curiosity about people: the development of a social curiosity measure in adults.
Curiosity refers to the desire for acquiring new information. The aim of this study was to develop a questionnaire to assess social curiosity, that is, interest in how other people think, feel, and behave. The questionnaire was administered to 312 participants. Factor analyses of the 10-item Social Curiosity Scale (SCS) yielded 2 factors: General Social Curiosity and Covert Social Curiosity. Ev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality Assessment
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0022-3891,1532-7752
DOI: 10.1207/s15327752jpa8703_11