Interest and deprivation factors of epistemic curiosity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1585-1595

  Litman, Jordan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversive exploration; Epistemic curiosity; I D model; Learning achievement; Specific exploration

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649119170     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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