Greater tolerance to losses in sensation seeking: Evidence from probability and delay discounting

The personality trait of sensation seeking is defined as “the tendency to take risks for varied, novel, complex and intense sensations and experiences” (Zuckerman, 1994). It has been in recent years regarded as a potential endophenotype of various risk-taking behaviors (Benjamin et al., 2001; Gottesman and Gould, 2003; Mann et al., 2017), including ri sky driving (Jonah, 1997), physical risk sports (Ruedl et al., 2012), promiscuous sexual activity (Hoyle et al., 2000), aggressive and unsocialized behaviors (Wilson and Scarpa, 2011), excessive gambling (Harris et al., 2015), and especially substance use (Bardo et al., 2007).
Source: Drug and Alcohol Dependence - Category: Addiction Authors: Tags: Full length article Source Type: research