The measurement of perceptual curiosity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1127-1141

  Collins, Robert P ^a,b   Litman, Jordan A ^a   Spielberger, Charles D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatric Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

Berlyne; Curiosity; Personality; Scale development; Sensation seeking; SSS; STPI

Indexed keywords

EID: 0742289192     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(03)00205-8     Document Type: Article

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