Systems genetics of sensation seeking

Sensation seeking in adolescents

Sensation Seeking Scale: Indian Adaptation

Sensation seeking refers to a biologically based personality dimension defined as the need for varied, novel and complex sensations and experiences, and the willingness to take physical and social risks for the sake of such experiences. Although researched worldwide for nearly three decades now, there is to date no published Indian study utilizing the concept of sensation seeking. This paper de...

A multivariate genetic analysis of sensation seeking.

The genetic architecture of sensation seeking was analyzed in 1591 adolescent twin pairs. Individual differences in sensation seeking were best explained by a simple additive genetic model. Between 48 and 63% of the total variance in sensation seeking subscales was attributable to genetic factors. There were no sex differences in the magnitude of the genetic and environmental effects. The diffe...

Sensation seeking and the aversive motivational system.

Sensation seeking (SS) has traditionally been viewed as a phenomenon of the appetitive motivational system. The limited SS research exploring contributions from the aversive motivational system reveals greater anxious reactivity to dangerous activities among low sensation seekers. The present study extends this line of work by comparing levels of fear and anxiety during anticipation of predicta...

Designing Prevention Programs for Sensation Seeking Adolescents

In their ancient past, humans learned to engage in the sometimes risky behavior of investigating novel objects in their environments, such as those that were possibly threatening or those which offered new sources of food or other reward, presumably as a means of survival. We call the propensity to seek out novelty, sensation seeking. Today, an emerging body of research from both the biological...