Intellectual curiosity may not incrementally predict academic success

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 64, Issue , 2014, Pages 7-11

  Powell, Christopher ^a   Nettelbeck, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Curiosity; Need for Cognition; Openness to Ideas; Personality; Typical Intellectual Engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894420108     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.01.045     Document Type: Article

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