Curiosity across Countries

In the Department of Scale Development at GESIS in Germany I’m leading research on the measurement of curiosity. While for long treated as a psychological construct of few dimensions, recent research has shown that curiosity seems to contain diverse (i.e., six) facets that fit under one umbrella.

Project status: Todd Kashdan and colleagues at Geroge Mason University had developed such a multi-dimensional construct of curiosity in 2020: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109836
A colleague and I have validated this concept in two additional countries, the UK and Germany: https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2022.2057318

Goal: Having found support for this curiosity concept, we plan to further advance its validation to several more diverse countries. We search for collaborators with expertise in this type of research to co-pilot further validation studies in new countries.

Funding: There is no funding and I’d be excited to co-develop a fellowship or grant proposal.

Time commitement: Medium. As we are interested in direct replications in different countries, study design and analytic framework are very much set but can, of course, be expanded by interesting additions. Most work will go into the translation of the main instrument and data collection.