{"title":"Insight-seeking is consistent across domains and distinct from other forms of curiosity","authors":"Marius Mercier, Edgar Dubourg, Hugo Mercier","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113051","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Feelings of insight can be triggered by making a scientific discovery, but also by discovering the culprit in a whodunit, or solving a riddle. While the intensity of these feelings varies between individuals, it is unclear whether some people consistently seek out insight across a wide range of stimuli. We conducted two studies to investigate this question. Study 1 (<em>N</em> = 189) revealed that individuals who enjoy one type of insight-generating content tend to enjoy other types as well. Study 2 (<em>N</em> = 470) showed that this interest differs from other types of curiosity, such as exploration and morbid curiosity. Together, these findings suggest that insight-seeking might be a distinct personality trait.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"237 ","pages":"Article 113051"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Personality and Individual Differences","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886925000133","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Feelings of insight can be triggered by making a scientific discovery, but also by discovering the culprit in a whodunit, or solving a riddle. While the intensity of these feelings varies between individuals, it is unclear whether some people consistently seek out insight across a wide range of stimuli. We conducted two studies to investigate this question. Study 1 (N = 189) revealed that individuals who enjoy one type of insight-generating content tend to enjoy other types as well. Study 2 (N = 470) showed that this interest differs from other types of curiosity, such as exploration and morbid curiosity. Together, these findings suggest that insight-seeking might be a distinct personality trait.
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Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.
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