What Are the Five Dimensions of Curiosity? | Psychology Today
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Social Curiosity: Overt Vs Covert
Overt Social Curiosity
- It means having an underlying interest in knowing what makes other people tick and other people's thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
- Having OSC is a link to healthy psychological outcomes such as open-mindedness and agreeableness.
Covert Social Curiosity
- The information gathered about other people with CSC is through indirect means of discovering what other people are like such as gossiping or snooping.
- Those who have CSC have less adaptive psychological outcomes.
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The Four Types of Curious People
- The Fascinated - These are people who scored high on all dimensions of curiosity, most especially joyous exploration.
- The Problem Solvers - They are high on deprivation sensitivity while medium on other dimensions.
- The Empathizers - They are high on social curiosity while being medium on other dimensions; and
- The Avoiders - which are low on all dimensions, particularly stress tolerance.
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The Five Dimensions Of Curiosity
- Joyous Exploration: It is a dimension where an individual recognizes the desire to seek out new knowledge and information with a subsequent joy of learning.
- Deprivation Sensitivity: This dimension has a distinct emotional tone where anxiety and tension are more prominent than joy. We often ponder abstract and complex ideas, create solutions for problems, and reduce the gaps in our knowledge.
- Stress Tolerance: This dimension is all about the willingness of an individual to embrace the distressing feelings that come with exploring new and unexpected events.
- Social Curiosity: This dimension is an individual's interest in knowing about what other people are thinking and doing through observation, making social gestures, or listening to conversations.
- Thrill Seeking: This dimension shows the willingness of a person to take the physical, social, and financial risks in order to acquire experiences they are curious about.
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