Joyous Exploration: This is the prototype of curiosity—the recognition and desire to seek out new knowledge and information, and the subsequent joy of learning and growing.
**Deprivation Sensitivity:**This dimension has a distinct emotional tone, with anxiety and tension being more prominent than joy—pondering abstract or complex ideas, trying to solve problems, and seeking to reduce gaps in knowledge.
Stress Tolerance: This dimension is about the willingness to embrace the doubt, confusion, anxiety, and other forms of distress that arise from exploring new, unexpected, complex, mysterious, or obscure events.
Social Curiosity: Wanting to know what other people are thinking and doing by observing, talking, or listening in to conversations.
Thrill Seeking: The willingness to take physical, social, and financial risks to acquire varied, complex, and intense experiences.
Types of People
**The Fascinated:**high on all dimensions of curiosity, particularly Joyous Exploration
Problem Solvers: high on Deprivation Sensitivity, medium on other dimensions
Empathizers: high on Social Curiosity, medium on other dimensions
**Avoiders:**low on all dimensions, particularly Stress Tolerance