Buzz Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers

3 FASTER, HOTTER, LOUDER: THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF A HIGH SENSATION-SEEKER In Alice in Wonderland, Alice follows a white rabbit down ...

“I’m going to travel 300 days with 0 money. I’ll follow the sun. I don’t want to have money coming in or going out,” she announc ...

find funny, but through testing this joke has been more likely to be found funny than any other joke, worldwide. Essentially thi ...

going up a roller coaster to speeding down the hill or the sudden unexpected twist in a joke. Anything that reduces tension is f ...

because the inconsistency is instantly resolved. They resolve the tension well before the punchline is delivered and the joke ju ...

High sensation-seekers seem to habituate more quickly than low sensation-seekers to arousing stimuli. To test this, Patrick Litl ...

test, taking about 20 minutes at most to rate all 400 figures. What the researchers discovered were radical differences in desig ...

capacity to focus their attention on a stimulus or task, and their attention is not diminished when they are bombarded with nois ...

it’s the beauty of the location. The top reasons people are inspired to travel? Some 58 percent say they needed a break from the ...

I just decided I wanted to do something really cool...the music inspired me. I gave up my apartment and stored my stuff with fri ...

The researchers noted, “High sensation-seekers preferred active, spontaneous, fast-paced and less comfortable vacations. On the ...

with a new version of it, there’s that initial perk of excitement, when you’re like, ‘Oh, interesting.’ Then you think about how ...

is eaten whole and extremely hot (once considered a delicacy in French cooking, eating ortolan is now illegal in the United Stat ...

“ – but it’s not cut up like squid or calamari. This baby octopus looks like they literally just pulled it out of the fish tank ...

try these foods. Research suggests that high sensation-seeking peo- ple have lower disgust reactions than those with average or ...

disgusting and experienced less emesis. Interestingly, men reported more emesis than women.^32 Some Like it Hot Sensation-seekin ...

capsaicin (about 48,000 Scoville units), and 12μm of capsaicin (about 192,000 Scoville units). For reference, cayenne peppers ra ...

For some people, food is an experience of flavors and the opportunity to try something different and unusual. For Jenny, eating ...

Remember Cy, who ordered the chicken hearts? When I asked him what his motivation was he said, “Most of the time when I order so ...

4 LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: SPORTS AND ADVENTURE IN HIGH SENSATION-SEEKING Matt Davis was a self-described everyday guy. “I was yo ...