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Drunk driving, sensation seeking, and egocentrism among adolescents
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Those who had drove while drunk were significantly less likely to expect that drunk driving would result in an automobile accident or an arrest for driving while under the influence of alcohol, compared to boys who had not driven while drunk.About:
This article is published in Personality and Individual Differences.The article was published on 1990-01-01. It has received 190 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Driving under the influence & Sensation seeking.read more
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Reckless behavior in adolescence: A developmental perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a developmental theory of reckless behavior among adolescents is presented, in which sensation seeking and adolescent egocentrism are especially prominent factors, and factors that may be responsible for the decline of reckless behaviour with age are discussed.
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Sensation seeking: A new conceptualization and a new scale
TL;DR: A new conception of sensation seeking is presented, along with a new scale [the Arnett Inventory of Sensation Seeking (AISS) as discussed by the authors, which emphasizes novelty and intensity as the two components of sensation-seeking.
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Sensation seeking and risky driving: a review and synthesis of the literature
TL;DR: The literature on sensation seeking as a direct influencer of risky driving and its consequences and as a moderator of the influence of other factors is reviewed and the implications for collision prevention measures are discussed.
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Present time perspective as a predictor of risky driving
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced a new individual difference variable, time perspective, as an important predictor of risky driving behavior, and found that present time perspective is significantly correlated with reported risky driving behaviors.
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Driving anger, sensation seeking, impulsiveness, and boredom proneness in the prediction of unsafe driving.
TL;DR: Investigation of the potential contribution of sensation seeking, impulsiveness, and boredom proneness to driving anger in the prediction of aggressive and risky driving supported the use of multiple predictors in understanding unsafe driving behavior.
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The Child's Conception of Space
TL;DR: The nature of space, whether an innate idea, the outcome of experience in the external world, or an operational construction has long been a source of philosophical and speculative psychological discussion.
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Sensation seeking in England and America: Cross-cultural, age, and sex comparisons.
TL;DR: A new form of the Sensation-Seeking Scale, applicable to both samples, was constructed, and three of the four factors showed good crossnational and cross-sex reliability.
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Egocentrism in adolescence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors described the different forms of egocentrism characteristic of each of the major stages of cognitive growth outlined by Piaget Particular attention is paid to the egocentricity of adolescence which is here described as the failure to differentiate between the cognitive concerns of others and those of the self.