Buzz Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers

to get the most out of it. For him, pushing to the other side of the crux makes him feel even more alive. ~ For each of these at ...

She wasn’t one of the first people on Facebook but she quickly became fascinated when Twitter started to grow because she could ...

“If all of a sudden now I have the most viewed video on Instagram or the most liked picture, or I get the most comments from peo ...

experience doing Tough Mudder. After he made that first jump he felt invincible. After making it multiple times it wasn’t even t ...

for a few seconds, while mountain climbers need them for hours at a time. In a way, the reward of their endurance activities is ...

5 WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS: THE RELATIONSHIPS OF HIGH SENSATION-SEEKERS Cindy was pretty excited when the guy she’d been dating f ...

Tom explained exactly what to do: which knob to pull, which lever to move, and guided her hands every step of the way. Cindy had ...

locked position, just waiting to land. You can’t dance, or pace much, it’s difficult to scratch your back; you can hardly squirm ...

and women indicated that they would be more likely to discuss sexual fantasies, attitudes, and anxieties with both close and cas ...

people most similar to them and chose a topic they were likely to agree on. The high sensation-seekers were more attracted to di ...

HSSs are really no different than the rest of us when it comes to their motivations, except of course some of their motiva- tion ...

Because of her “no fear” lifestyle some of Ava’s friends don’t exactly respond positively to some of her choices of activities. ...

way. Situations like this just don’t feel as overwhelming to them, because they can think through the experience in a clearheade ...

religious service. I’ve never been so confused. When to stand, when to sit, what and when to sing – and that was in my own city! ...

Intercultural communication can require a person to mas- ter nuances and manage the anxiety of not being sure what to do. There ...

he created a taxonomy, a way to tag various kinds of love, and gave each one a Greek name:agape, eros, storge, pragma, mania, an ...

but it also requires a certain boredom tolerance – something some sensation-seekers just aren’t good at. Being with the same per ...

sensations and arousal in the bedroom. Sensation-seekers have more permissive attitudes toward sex and more varied types of sexu ...

emotions. Knowing when you are feeling grumpy is one thing. But being able to flip off the grumpiness to seem chipper when you a ...

Their difficulty with interpersonal intelligence may be yet another reason some high sensation-seekers struggle with long- term ...