Curiosity is a universal and omnipotent, predominantly human trait. It underlies child development and plays a major role in learning, discovery and art. In between, it is the spice of daily life and a strong bonding element between people. For clinicians, curiosity makes the difference between tiresome ‘automatic pilot’ practice and keenly expecting to meet a new challenge, a new learning oppo...

The success of horror films, popularity true crime, and prevalence violence in the news implies that morbid curiosity is a common psychological trait. However, research on largely absent from literature. In this paper, I present psychometric tool for assessing curiosity, defined as motivation to seek out information about dangerous phenomena, use it investigate nature curiosity. studies 1 2 (nt...

The personality trait of curiosity has been shown to increase welfare in humans. If this positive welfare effect is also true for non-humans, animals with high levels of curiosity may be able to cope better with stressful situations than their conspecifics. Before discoveries can be made regarding the effect of curiosity on an animal's ability to cope in their environment, a way of measuring cu...