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Sensation Seeking and Novelty Seeking

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1993
Responses to Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) and Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (which consists of novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and reward-dependence dimensions) have been linked to a variety of behavioral and psychiatric variables.
W F, McCourt, R J, Gurrera, H S, Cutter
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A Short Sensation-Seeking Scale

Psychological Reports, 1987
Four studies examined the reliability and validity of a short form of Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale. The short form demonstrated high retest reliability ( r = .78), correlated with drug- and sex-related behavior to the same extent as longer forms, gave higher scores for men than for women (as do the longer forms), and correlated .78 with Form V.
D B, Madsen, A K, Das, I, Bogen, E E, Grossman   +3 more
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Sensation seeking and error processing

Psychophysiology, 2014
AbstractSensation seeking is defined by a strong need for varied, novel, complex, and intense stimulation, and a willingness to take risks for such experience. Several theories propose that the insensitivity to negative consequences incurred by risks is one of the hallmarks of sensation‐seeking behaviors.
Ya, Zheng, Wenbin, Sheng, Jing, Xu, Yuanyuan, Zhang   +3 more
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Sensation Seeking and Drug Choice

International Journal of the Addictions, 1983
Sensation Seeking Scale scores were obtained from two groups of drug program clients: polydrug users and opiate and depressant drug users. The major findings were that polydrug users scored higher in sensation seeking than depressant users, and that this effect was independent of demographic differences between groups.
M, Galizio, F S, Stein
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Sensation Seeking and Pathological Gambling

British Journal of Addiction, 1986
SummaryZuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and the Spielberger's State‐ Trait Anxiety Inventory were administered to 51 pathological gamblers seeking treatment to investigate the hypothesis that arousal associated with gambling was related to a general sensation seeking personality trait.Pathological gamblers as ...
A P, Blaszczynski, A C, Wilson, N, McConaghy   +2 more
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Sensation seeking and gonadal hormones

Journal of Biosocial Science, 1978
SummaryTwo samples of male students (N = 25, and N = 51) and a small sample of female students (N = 7) were administered the Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS), and blood samples were drawn on two occasions to determine plasma levels of androgens and oestrogens. Reliable and significant simple and partial correlations were found between the sex hormones and
R J, Daitzman, M, Zuckerman, P, Sammelwitz, V, Ganjam   +3 more
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Sensation Seeking and Marital Adjustment

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1989
Seventy-two married couples completed Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V, and the Kimmel and VanderVeen modification of the Locke Marital Adjustment Questionnaire. Marital adjustment was not related to the difference between husbands' and wives' sensation-seeking scores, but a negative relationship was found between sensation seeking and ...
K J, Gibson, R E, Franken, G L, Rowland
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Sensation Seeking and Cortical Augmenting‐Reducing

Psychophysiology, 1974
ABSTRACTThe experiment was designed to establish the relationship between the Sensation Seeking Scales (SSS) and cortical augmenting‐reducing. Forty‐nine male undergraduate Ss were used. Ss were presented with five intensities of light flashes in randomly presented blocks of trials at each intensity.
M, Zuckerman, T, Murtaugh, J, Siegel
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Sensation Seeking, Message Sensation Value, and Destinations

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2016
This study investigated whether advertisements with different (high or low) message sensation value (MSV) had different impacts on consumers with different (high or low) sensation-seeking (SS) trait with regard to their destination image perceptions and behavioral intentions through a cross-cultural comparison.
Allan Cheng Chieh Lu, Christina Geng-Qing Chi, Carol Yi Rong Lu   +2 more
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Sensation Seeking and Behavior Disorders

Archives of General Psychiatry, 1988
To the Editor.— Cloninger 1 has recently presented an interesting proposal for classifications of personality variants based on monoamine functions. One of his three postulated dimensions of personality is termed novelty seeking . A reading of the description of this dimension suggests that it is practically identical to the trait dimension termed ...
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