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Personality and sensation seeking in high-risk sports
Acta Gymnica, 2017 Background: Personality represents a relatively consistent and unique sum of psychological, cognitive and physical characteristics of an individual. Sensation seeking is defined as an action, characterized by the search for different, new, complex and ...
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NeuroImage, 2020 Sensation-seeking is a multifaceted personality trait with components that include experience-seeking, thrill and adventure seeking, disinhibition, and susceptibility to boredom, and is an aspect of impulsiveness.
Zhuo Wan, MSc +3 more
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Seeking Risks: Towards a Quantitative Risk Perception Measure [PDF]
, 2013 Existing instruments for measuring risk perception have focused on an abstract version of the concept, without diving into the the details of what forms the perception of likelihood and impact. However, as information security risks become increasingly complex and difficult for users to understand, this approach may be less feasible.
Nyre, Åsmund, Jaatun, Martin
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Nature and Science of Sleep, 2020 Yi Lin, 1,* Ping Hu, 1, 2,* Zifeng Mai, 1, 2 Tianxiang Jiang, 1, 2 Lei Mo, 1, 3, 4 Ning Ma 1–4 1School of Psychology; 2Center for Sleep Research; 3Center for Studies of Psychological Application; 4Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health &
Lin Y, Hu P, Mai Z, Jiang T, Mo L, Ma N
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The Influence of Financial Interest, Sensation Seeking, and Financial Literacy on Risk Tolerance [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThis study aims to investigate the influence of financial interest, sensation seeking (thrill & adventure, experience seeking, disinhibition, boredom susceptibility), and financial literacy on risk tolerance.
Sutanto Levina, Anastasia Njo
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Sensation seeking among high- and low-risk sports participants : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University [PDF]
, 1996 The purpose of the present study was to investigate the sensation seeking tendencies of select New Zealand athletes. A "sensation seeker" is thought to be a person who needs varied, complex, novel, and intense forms of stimulation and experience and who ...
Jack, Sarah Jane
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Yes, we can: motivate Dutch citizens to engage in self-protective behavior with regard to flood risks [PDF]
, 2011 Although the risk of flooding poses a serious threat to the Dutch public, citizens are not very inclined to engage in self-protective behaviors.
Gutteling, Jan M., Kievik, Milou
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Adolescence is characterized as a period of increased social behavior, risk taking, and novelty seeking, partly due to ongoing maturation in critical brain areas and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) negative-feedback system.
Hannah G. Sexton +4 more
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Measuring Risk Aversion Model-Independently [PDF]
, 2010 We propose a new method to elicit individuals' risk preferences. Similar to Holt and Laury (2002), we use a simple multiple price-list format. However, our method is based on a general notion of increasing risk, which allows classifying individuals as ...
Maier, Johannes, Rüger, Maximilian
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