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Behavioral expressions and biosocial bases of sensation seeking / Marvin Zuckerman.
Van Pelt Library BF698.35.S45 Z83 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zuckerman, Marvin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sensation seeking.
- Sensation seeking--Testing.
- Psychobiology.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
- Summary:
- This book is concerned with a trait that describes variations in the need for novel and intense stimulation and its expression in risky kinds of behaviour.
- Contents:
- 1 Theory through 1979 1
- 2 Test development 30
- 3 Sensation seeking in relation to other dimensions of personality 56
- 4 Demographic data 99
- 5 Risk taking 124
- 6 Sports and vocations 156
- 7 Social, sexual, and marital relationships 178
- 8 Vicarious experience: art, media, music, fantasy, and humor 199
- 9 Smoking, drinking, drugs, and eating 225
- 10 Psychopathology and stress 258
- 11 Biological bases 285
- 12 Psychophysiology 320
- 13 Information processing, cognitive styles, intelligence, and creativity 354
- 14 New theoretical models 373.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-451) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0521432006
- 0521437709
- OCLC:
- 29386789
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