Sensation-Seeking Scale
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Marvin Zuckerman of the University of Delaware
has spent more than 20 years researching the personality trait he has come to call "sensation seeking." His work indicates that sensation-seeking is one of a handful of "core traits" that can be used to describe human personality. Furthermore, he presents convincing evidence that this characteristic has a strong genetic component nearly as strong as that for intelligence. So, sensation-seeking parents are likely to have sensation-seeking children.
Sensation-seeking can be divided into 4 traits:
University of Delaware
The university is organized into seven colleges:* College of Agriculture and Natural Resources* College of Arts and Sciences* Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics* College of Earth, Ocean and Environment* College of Education and Human Development...
has spent more than 20 years researching the personality trait he has come to call "sensation seeking." His work indicates that sensation-seeking is one of a handful of "core traits" that can be used to describe human personality. Furthermore, he presents convincing evidence that this characteristic has a strong genetic component nearly as strong as that for intelligence. So, sensation-seeking parents are likely to have sensation-seeking children.
Sensation-seeking can be divided into 4 traits:
- Thrill- and adventureAdventureAn adventure is defined as an exciting or unusual experience; it may also be a bold, usually risky undertaking, with an uncertain outcome. The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports...
-seeking - ExperienceExperienceExperience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill in or observation of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event....
-seeking - DisinhibitionDisinhibitionDisinhibition is a term in psychology used to describe a lack of restraint manifested in several ways, including disregard for social conventions, impulsivity, and poor risk assessment. Disinhibition affects motor, instinctual, emotional, cognitive and perceptual aspects with signs and symptoms...
- BoredomBoredomBoredom is an emotional state experienced when an individual is without any activity or is not interested in their surroundings. The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852, in which it appears six times, although the expression to be a...
susceptibility
External links
- Marvin Zuckerman, Big ThinkBig ThinkBig Think is an online knowledge forum, founded in 2007, that features interviews, multi-media presentations, and roundtable discussions with major intellectuals from a wide range of fields....
- KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Marvin Zuckerman, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition ResearchKonrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition ResearchThe Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research is an international center for advanced studies in theoretical biology. It supports the articulation, analysis, and integration of biological theories and the exploration of their wider scientific and cultural significance...