Epistemic curiosity and related constructs: Lacking evidence of discriminant validity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 506-510

  Mussel, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curiosity; Need for cognition; Openness to experience; Openness to ideas; Personality; Typical intellectual engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954218605     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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