Marvin Zuckerman

Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 926g
• ISBN-13: 9780521432009
• ISBN-10: 0521432006
• Artikelnr.: 21119642

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theory through 1979
2. Test development
3. Sensation seeking in relation to other dimensions of personality
4. Demographic data
5. Risk taking
6. Sports and vocations
7. Social, sexual, and marital relationships
8. Vicarious experience: art, media, music, fantasy, and humour
9. Smoking, drinking, drugs, and eating
10. Psychopathology and stress
11. Biological bases
12. Psychophysiology
13. Information processing, cognitive styles, intelligence and creativity
14. New theoretical models
References.