Buzz Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers

into social work and enter child protective services. Others partici- pate and coach Spartan Races. Still others, like Anton, co ...

Could it be that high sensation-seekers also seek to help others? A study done in 2008 at Auburn University paints an inter- est ...

Farley, the L.H. Carnell Professor at Temple University, says “Heroes...often have difficulty articulating why they did it, ofte ...

a disability she can do everything that she originally planned on doing before her disability.” The outcome? She is now married ...

and wellbeing.^21 They found that the higher the level of sensation- seeking, the greater the life satisfaction and resilience, ...

program ended, Mike got an email from Marshall. He was able to stand at his high school graduation – which had been a personal d ...

myself. I bought a Lonely Planet book. I’m buying a new camera. I leave tomorrow for Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It’s like, get ...

some evidence that mindfulness mediation can help. Meditation can be a powerful tool to fight off boredom. I know that meditatio ...

CONCLUSION Where does all of this leave us? Is high sensation-seeking a superpower, as illustrated in thelast chapter, or is it ...

as nearly pathological. Of course, these behaviors also occur in the rest of the population, likely in about the same percentage ...

Here are my conclusions. High sensation-seeking is like any other personality trait or any other tool. It can be positive or neg ...

low sensation-seekers are introduced to something new and unusual, they often reject it simply because it is unfamiliar or unusu ...

APPENDIX 1 For Students: Learning Objectives and Topics for Discussion By Jonna Kwiatokowski Chapter 1 Learning Objectives Diff ...

across the four subscales: 1) thrill- and adventure- seeking, 2) experience-seeking, 3) disinhibition, and 4) boredom susceptibi ...

the implications of taking these drugs toward sensation- seeking behaviors? The examples in this chapter might lead one to thin ...

you have a mind museum? What do you put in your mind museum? Can you have a non-adventure-based mind museum? What is the hottes ...

sustain interest in learning skills that take so much time, given that sensation-seekers also report that they get bored easily? ...

Consider that the high sensation-seekers’ typical pattern of engaging in relationships may not always lead to desirable outcome ...

Consider how a high sensation-seeker justifies risky behavior in a work situation. They will often identify external challenges ...

Review the typical stages that someone might go through from curiosity about drugs to addiction to drugs, especially for high s ...