Sensation Seeking and Risky Behavior

Risky behavior can be expression of a normal, genetically influenced personality trait, sensation seeking. Its expression in risky behaviors such as extreme and risky sports, vocations, substance abuse, unsafe sex, and crime, among others, is the topic of this fascination and accessible book. In Sensation Seeking and Risky Behavior, Marvin Zukerman offers a comprehensive view of the role of sensation seeking in a wide reange of behaviors, from risky driving and sports through substance abuse, sex, and crime or other antisocial behaviors. How the personality trait sensation seeking relates to these risky behaviors is described and expalined in terms of genetics, biology, attitudes, and expectancies. Insights into prevention and treatment of maladaptive forms of sensation seeking, like substance abuse and unsafe sexual activity, based on the published research, are offered. The author of this engagingly written book is one of the foremost experts in this important area of behavior.