Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking

by Marvin Zuckerman

Book Overview

Sensation seeking is a trait describing the tendency to seek novel, varied, complex, and intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such experience. The first sensation seeking scale (SSS) was developed in the early 1960s and since that time the instrument and the theory of the trait have evolved as a function of continuing research around the world. The author describes the research and theory on sensation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521437709
• ISBN13: 9780521437707
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"