Article: Friends, porn, and punk: sensation seeking in personal relationships, Internet activities, and music preference among college students.

Individuals may differ radically from one another in their need for excitement. These differences in levels of desired stimulation or arousal involve a personality trait known as sensation seeking. Zuckerman (1994) has defined sensation seeking as "the seeking of varied, novel, complex, and intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take physical, social, legal, and financial risks for the sake of such experience" (p. 27). Sensation seeking includes risk-taking, which typically satisfies the high sensation seeking individual's desire for novel and intense experiences (Arnett, 1996; Jessor, 1992). For example, to the high sensation seeker, substance use ...

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