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Sensation Seeking and Risk Taking

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Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology

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Zuckerman has pursued the conceptualization and measurement of sensation seeking with such success that it is beginning to take its place alongside such long-established concepts as introversion and extraversion. Zuckerman conceives sensation seeking as a motive that can be measured as both trait and state.

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Zuckerman, M. (1979). Sensation Seeking and Risk Taking. In: Izard, C.E. (eds) Emotions in Personality and Psychopathology. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2892-6_7

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