Validity of the interest-and deprivation-type epistemic curiosity model in Germany

Journal of Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 59-68

  Litman, Jordan A ^a   Mussel, Patrick ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

D type; epistemic curiosity; I type; trait curiosity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878879947     PISSN: 16140001     EISSN: 21512299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000100     Document Type: Article

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