Sensation seeking is a trait describing the tendency to seek novel, varied, complex, and intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such experience. The first sensation seeking scale (SSS) was developed in the early 1960s and since that time the instrument and the theory of the trait have evolved as a function of continuing research around the world. The author describes the research and theory on sensation seeking with emphasis on new findings since 1979. Researchers have found behavioral expressions of sensation seeking in various kinds of risk-taking behaviors such as driving habits, health, gambling, financial, alcohol and drug use, sexual behavior, and sports. The trait is also involved in vocational preferences and choices, job satisfaction, social, premarital and marital relationships, eating habits and food preferences, media and art preferences, humor, fantasy, creativity and social attitudes. The author here describes its modes of assessment, behavioral expressions, and genetic and psychobiological bases. This book presents the only available study of this fascinating topic and it will be sure to interest researchers and their students active in personality research.
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"Anyone curious about the utility of a unified field of psychology should read Zuckerman's stellar book on sensation seeking...I find it hard to imagine a psychologist who would not learn something of real value from this book." Contemporary Psychology
"It is rare to see strong coverage of a topic that spans measurement, sensation, perception, motivation, cognition, learning, clinical and biological studies....Zuckerman makes a successful case for psychology. This work provides one-stop shopping for researchers and applied psychologists who need to catch up on the progress made since his previous book on sensation seeking....Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking is a highly successful unified psychology of an individual difference variable....I find it hard to imagine a psychologist who would not learn something of real value from this book." Allan R. Karkness, Contemporary Psychology
"It is rare to see strong coverage of a topic that spans measurement, sensation, perception, motivation, cognition, learning, clinical and biological studies....Zuckerman makes a successful case for psychology. This work provides one-stop shopping for researchers and applied psychologists who need to catch up on the progress made since his previous book on sensation seeking....Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking is a highly successful unified psychology of an individual difference variable....I find it hard to imagine a psychologist who would not learn something of real value from this book." Allan R. Karkness, Contemporary Psychology
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Sensation seeking is a trait describing the tendency to seek varied sensations and experiences and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such experience. This book presents the only available study of this topic for students active in personality research.
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lower sensation seekers, low sensation seekers, higher sensation seekers, high sensation seekers, high disinhibiters, change seeker index, diversive curiosity, sensation seekers seem, sensation seeking correlated, worst social sin, narrow impulsivity, sensation seekers tend, boredom susceptibility, appraised risk, sensation seeking scale, monotony avoidance, impulsivity scales, sensation seeking motive, arousal potential, temperament inventory, general emotionality, nonsense humor, risky sports, experience seekers, relationship between sensation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pergamon Press, United States, Cognitive Structure, New York, University of Delaware, Copyright American Psychological Association, Cambridge University Press, Change Seeker Index, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Strelau Temperament Inventory, Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, Jackson Personality Inventory, Karolinska Scales of Personality, Personality Research Form, Summary Sensation, Arousal Seeking Tendency, Buss-Plomin Temperament New!
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The primary distinction between scientific theory and other types of explanation is that scientific theory is capable of disproof by empirical methods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lower sensation seekers, low sensation seekers, higher sensation seekers, high sensation seekers, high disinhibiters, change seeker index, diversive curiosity, sensation seekers seem, sensation seeking correlated, worst social sin, narrow impulsivity, sensation seekers tend, boredom susceptibility, appraised risk, sensation seeking scale, monotony avoidance, impulsivity scales, sensation seeking motive, arousal potential, temperament inventory, general emotionality, nonsense humor, risky sports, experience seekers, relationship between sensation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pergamon Press, United States, Cognitive Structure, New York, University of Delaware, Copyright American Psychological Association, Cambridge University Press, Change Seeker Index, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Strelau Temperament Inventory, Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, Jackson Personality Inventory, Karolinska Scales of Personality, Personality Research Form, Summary Sensation, Arousal Seeking Tendency, Buss-Plomin Temperament New!
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- Sensation Seeking: Beyond the Optimal Level of Arousal by Marvin Zuckerman on 34 pages
- Clinical Psychology: Integrating Science and Practice by Arthur Freeman on 5 pages
- Social Psychology: Third Edition by Eliot R. Smith on 4 pages
- Social Psychology: People in Groups by Bertram H. Raven in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Abnormal Psychology by Michele T., Ph.D. Martin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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