Buzz Inside the Minds of Thrill-Seekers

were eating, otherwise they would slide off the table. It was so bad you’d learn to put your laundry in your bunk with you to ki ...

reaction speeds, our memory, learning, just being shown some- thing and being able to do it again right away. One of the things ...

expressed itself there. I wracked my brain and came up with a bunch of possibilities. There are a lot of dangerous occupations. ...

procedures that aren’t even allowed in civilian hospitals are routi- nely performed. In the military, you can do a lot of things ...

feet. While these are clearly not high sensation-seeking activities, you can tell by talking to him that Corey gets a kind of th ...

“I think it comes through in my work, as well. Like with corporate America, I’ll get bored very easily because there’s no more t ...

The vast majority of us simply don’t work in careers like these, and that includes many HSSs. After all, even jobs we perceive t ...

7 THE DARK SIDE OF HIGH SENSATION-SEEKING Daedalus, a brilliant Athenian architect, was commissioned by King Minos of Crete to d ...

followed. With an unfurling whoosh, Icarus was airborne. He was actually flying! His body was weightless. He was free. He felt t ...

learned early on in his high sensation experiences that “adventure- seeking...takes you right to the edge.” “I think it started ...

start the trek up the volcano at midnight and I kept telling myself, ‘I can do this. I can do this,’ but my heart was racing. “T ...

Think back to Zuckerman’s definition of sensation-seeking fromChapter 1: “sensation-seeking is a personality trait defined by th ...

Michael Neeb asked people to estimate how fast they usually drive if the posted speed limit is 55, those with a total sensation- ...

texting, putting on makeup, scolding kids, reading, or swatting bees. It’s a small wonder anyone gets from one place to the next ...

increases – it does obviously, but not as much as you might think. About a third of drivers report speeding because of time pres ...

could dart out in front of your car – all sorts of unimagined chaos. The best way to avoid it is to keep a safe distance. But mo ...

If It’s Worth Doing: Addictions Sensation-Seeking and Substance Use Maybe you’ve heard of the term “addictive personality.” Peop ...

It’s hard to imagine that anyone gets involved with sub- stances intending to get hooked, much less to have the substances slowl ...

seek out unusual experiences drives them to try dangerous things. And sometimes it just doesn’t work out so well. Zuckerman foun ...

in fact, drugs, lest she suspect I was popping tangerine colored pills between social studies and spelling. I was raised to be t ...