Decision-making under risk has been variably characterized and examined in many different
disciplines. However, interdisciplinary integration has not been forthcoming. Classic theories …

Due to recent changes of gambling laws, accessibility to gambling has become more
widespread and thus, there has also been an increase in the prevalence of pathological …

Sensation seeking is a trait describing the tendency to seek novel, varied, complex, and
intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such …

Prior research has utilized the Zung Depression Inventory (ZDI) and found that moderate to
severe rates of depression coexist with pathological Internet use. 1 Although the ZDI was …

This is the third book I have written on the topic of sensation seeking. The first described the
theoretical origins of the construct, the research on sensory deprivation that grew from the …

This study evaluated the relationships between sensation seeking and impulsivity, appraisal
of risk in several areas including crime, financial, social violations, sports, and risk of AIDS …

This paper first discusses historic differences in the way that personality psychologists and
decision-making researchers have studied risk-taking, and then describes a preliminary …

With most Western countries expanding the availability of gambling facilities in recent
decades, considerable research interest has developed in those people who develop …

Evidence that psychoactive substance use disorders, bulimia nervosa, pathological
gambling, and sexual addiction share an underlying biopsychological process is …

To test the hypothesis that pathological gamblers seek stimulation as a means of reducing
aversive underaroused states of boredom and/or depression, the Beck Depression …