Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking
Cambridge University Press, 9/29/1994
EAN 9780521432009, ISBN10: 0521432006
Hardcover, 480 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Language: English
This book is about a trait describing variations in the universal need for novel and intense stimulation and its expressions in various risky kinds of behaviour (including driving habits, health, gambling, financial risk, alcohol and drug use and abuse, sexual behaviour, and sports). Sensation seeking is also important in preferences for various vocations, media forms and content, food, humour and social attitudes. Compatibility in the trait influences premarital and marital relationship satisfaction. Its modes of assessment, behavioural expressions, and genetic and psychobiological bases are described by one of the leading researchers in this field. 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.
1. Theory through 1979
2. Test development
3. Sensation seeking in relation to other dimensions of personality
4. Demographic data
5. Risk taking
6. Sports and vocations
7. Social, sexual, and marital relationships
8. Vicarious experience
art, media, music, fantasy, and humour
9. Smoking, drinking, drugs, and eating
10. Psychopathology and stress
11. Biological bases
12. Psychophysiology
13. Information processing, cognitive styles, intelligence and creativity
14. New theoretical models
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