Sensation seeking (AISS)
Psychology: Personality1 sample item
About this scale
Sensation seeking is a psychological trait characterized by a search for intense and novel experiences. Marvin Zukerman is one of the first psychologists looking into this concept in great detail. Zukerman developed a scale (Sensation Seeking Scale, SSS, 1971) that he developed over time. Zukerman's scale is one of the most cited, but one can argue that the scale has various issues, as explained by Jeffrey Arnett (1994). One example of an issues is that th
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Source & citation
Arnett, J. (1994). Sensation seeking: A new conceptualization and a new scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 16 , 289-296. | Zuckerman, M. (1971). Dimensions of sensation seeking. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 36 , 45-52. | Zuckerman, M., Eysenck, S. B. G. & Eysenck, H. J. (1978). Sensation seeking in England and America: Cross-cultural, age, and sex comparisons. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46 , 139-149.
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