Social Curiosity Scale

Description:

The Social Curiosity Scale was developed by Renner et al. (2006) to assess people's interest in how others think, feel and behave. The scale consists of 10 items with a 4-point rating scale ranging from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". The exploratory factor analysis revealed two factors: General social curiosity and covert social curiosity.

Citation:

When using the Social Curiosity Scale, the correct citation is:

Renner, B. (2006). Curiosity about people: The development of a measure of social curiosity in adults. Journal of Personality Assessment, 87, 305-316. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327752jpa8703_11

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Publications and uses of the Social Curiosity Scale:

  • Eichenlaub, J. B., Nicolas, A., Daltrozzo, J., Redouté, J., Costes, N., & Ruby, P. (2014). Resting brain activity varies with dream recall frequency between subjects. Neuropsychopharmacology, 39, 1594-1602. https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2014.6
  • Ernst, C. P. H., Pfeiffer, J., & Rothlauf, F. (2015). The influence of social curiosity on the observing behavior of users on social network sites. Twenty-first Americas Conference on Information Systems, Puerto Rico.
  • Hartung, F.-M. & Renner, B. (2011). Social curiosity and interpersonal perception: A judge x trait interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 796-814. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167211400618
  • Hartung, F.-M., & Renner, B. (2013). Social curiosity and gossip: Related but different drives of social functioning. PLoS ONE, 8(7): e69996. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0069996
  • Hizo-Abes, P., Young, A., Reese, P. P., McFarlane, P., Wright, L., Cuerden, M., & Garg, A. X. (2010). Attitudes to sharing personal health information in living kidney donation. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 5(4), 717-722. https://doi.org/10.2215/CJN.06130809
  • Huang, K., Yeomans, M., Brooks, A. W., Minson, J., & Gino, F. (2017). It doesn’t hurt to ask: Question-asking increases liking. Journal of personality and social psychology, 113(3), 430-452. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000097
  • Kashdan, T. B., Disabato, D., Goodman, F., & McKnight, P. (2019). The Five-Dimensional Curiosity Scale Revised (5DCR): Briefer subscales while separating general overt and covert social curiosity. Personality and Individual Differences,157(109836) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.109836
  • Krasnova, H., Koroleva, K., & Veltri, N. F. (2010). Investigation of the network construction behaviour on social networking sites. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems – ICIS, 182.
  • Schmalbach, B., Hennemuth, L., & Echterhoff, G. (2019). A Tool for Assessing the Experience of Shared Reality: Validation of the German SR-T. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(832). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00832
  • Spunt, R. P., & Adolphs, R. (2015). Folk explanations of behavior: a specialized use of a domain-general mechanism. Psychological Science, 26(6), 724-736. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615569002
  • Young, A., Kim, S. J., Gibney, E. M., Parikh, C. R., Cuerden, M. S., Horvat, L. D., ... & Donor Nephrectomy Outcomes Research (DONOR) Network. (2009). Discovering misattributed paternity in living kidney donation: prevalence, preference, and practice. Transplantation, 87(10), 1429-1435. https://doi.org/10.1097/TP.0b013e3181a4eae5