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Sensation Seeking and Marital Adjustment
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1989Seventy-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 Estimation of Numerosity
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1987In a sample of 81 subjects, significant negative correlations were obtained between scores on Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale and estimates of numerosity. A cognitive view of sensation seeking was suggested, according to which high scores are a function of an underestimation of the amount of stimulation experienced and low scores a function of ...
N, Ginsburg, A T, Ksander
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Sensation Seeking and Drug Choice
International Journal of the Addictions, 1983Sensation 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 gonadal hormones
Journal of Biosocial Science, 1978SummaryTwo 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 +3 more
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Locus of Control, Sensation Seeking, and Stress
Psychological Reports, 1996We explored the relations among locus of control, sensation seeking, and stress ( N = 68 students). Corroborating evidence was found that subjects with an external locus of control are more vulnerable to stress. Subjects scoring higher on the thrill and adventure seeking-dimension of sensation seeking reported less severe physical and psychological ...
De Brabander, B. +3 more
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Sensation Seeking and the Aversive Motivational System.
Emotion, 2005Sensation seeking (SS) has traditionally been viewed as a phenomenon of the appetitive motivational system. The limited SS research exploring contributions from the aversive motivational system reveals greater anxious reactivity to dangerous activities among low sensation seekers.
Shmuel Lissek +6 more
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Sensation Seeking and Cortical Augmenting‐Reducing
Psychophysiology, 1974ABSTRACTThe 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 and Behavior Disorders
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1988To 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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Personality and Individual Differences, 1990
Abstract After filling out Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V (SSSV), participants (113 male and 142 female university students) were asked to fantasize about what they would do if they won a million dollars while filling out a 39-item multiple-choice questionnaire that asked a wide variety of questions that covered such topics as how they ...
R.E. Franken, G.L. Rowland
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Abstract After filling out Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V (SSSV), participants (113 male and 142 female university students) were asked to fantasize about what they would do if they won a million dollars while filling out a 39-item multiple-choice questionnaire that asked a wide variety of questions that covered such topics as how they ...
R.E. Franken, G.L. Rowland
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Sensation Seeking, Mania, and Monoamines
Neuropsychobiology, 1985Mania is a clinical state that could be described as sensation seeking behavior out of control. This article describes the biochemical correlates of the sensation seeking trait in normals including: gonadal hormones, monoamine oxidase, CSF norepinephrine, plasma dopamine-beta-hydroxylase and serotonin.
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