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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Novelty Seeking"”.
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Novelty-Seeking Behavior as a Function of Manifest Anxiety and Physiological Arousal
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Personality and family relationship correlates of drug abstention in adolescents
… in terms of the personality characteristics of novelty-seeking, harm avoidance, and reward dependence and the level of relationship problems with the father independent of the adolescent/mother relationship. Additional information was gathered on demographic and background factors. The primary …
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Effect of risk perception on travel intention to conflict-ridden destinations
… perceived risk, individual characteristics (novelty-seeking behaviour), destination image, prior experience and theory of planned behaviour (TPB) constructs. The findings are summarized in the following points: • Subjective norms influenced both perceived behavioural control, attitude towards …
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Understanding And Improving Adhd Symptom Recall: An Investigation of Temperament And Childhood Symptom Recall Over Time
… of symptom onset before the age of 12, adults seeking ADHD assessments provide a challenge to clinicians to determine if symptoms were present in childhood. The current study investigated the consistency of retrospective parental and self-recall of childhood symptoms and explored potential …
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The molecular genetics of bipolar affective disorder : South African populations, endophenotypes, and environmental influence
… evaluated in the cohort, and anxiety related, novelty-seeking, hyperthymic, and cyclothymic personality traits were found to aggregate in participants with BPD and to a lesser extent repeated unipolar illness (MDE-R). These traits were therefore used as quantitative markers or endophenotypes of …
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Molecular bases of scouting behavior in honey bees
… scouting behavior in honey bees is analogous to novelty- seeking behavior in vertebrates, and is therefore associated with differences in brain dopaminergic, octopaminergic and glutamatergic systems. I found significant brain down- regulation of the D1-type dopamine receptor genes and …
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Molekulargenetische Aspekte dopaminerger Modulation der Responsivität gegenüber Neuheit
… höheren Ausprägung in der Temperamentsdimension Novelty Seeking in Verbindung gebracht, Nachfolgeuntersuchungen erbrachten jedoch inkonsistente Resultate. Angesichts der methodischen und demografischen Heterogenität der einzelnen Studien war es das Anliegen zweier erster Studien der Dissertation, …
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Orbitofrontal Cortex and Social Processing in Rodent Models
… were presented and required discrimination. Novelty seeking, decision-making, memory, and gregariousness were tested in isolation to determine OFC contributions to these specific behavioral contributions to SR test performance. OFC inactivation did not impair novelty seeking, non-social …
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Consumer behaviour towards voluntary carbon credits
… norms, perceived behavioural control, trust, novelty seeking, awareness of consequences, attribution of responsibility, and personal norms. The findings underscore the significance of these factors in shaping consumer purchase intentions. Additionally, they highlight the critical role of …
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Genetic and environmental influences on impulsivity and coping motives for alcohol across emerging and young adulthood
… more susceptible to environmental influences on novelty seeking, and to a lesser extent impulsivity, in the AHB data; this finding largely failed to replicate in MOAFTS. No GXE on coping motives were identified. These findings provide limited support that DRD4 status modifies the influence of …
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Exploring Impulsivity, Hostility, and Poor Decision-Making in Social Anxiety: An Externalizing Social Anxiety Subtype?
… individuals who exhibit approach-oriented and novelty-seeking behaviors in the context of their fears of social situations. This body of research has, to date, relied exclusively on self-report data to make conclusions about the nature of this "atypical" (Kashdan, McKnight, Richey, & Hofmann, …
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Identifying the Relationship Between the Angry Impulsive Social Anxiety Subtype and Vulnerable Narcissism Utilizing Latent Profile Analysis
… by high levels of anger and high-risk or novelty-seeking impulsive behaviors. Interestingly, this subtype bears conceptual similarities with prior accounts of vulnerable narcissism. For example, both are associated with concerns regarding self-presentation and how they are perceived by …
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The Relationships of Perceived Risk to Personal Factors, Knowledge of Destination, and Travel Purchase Decisions in International Leisure Travel
… also examined. Individuals' characteristics of novelty seeking were negatively related to their risk perception, as were individuals' proficiency of the destination's native language. Those who have experience visiting the destination tended to perceive less risk in vacationing at the …
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Effect of novelty and risk on schema-based learning and decision making in ecological settings
… in ecological settings. Moreover, the effect of novelty and risk on learning and decision making and whether this process is mediated via arousal- or attention-related mechanisms remain debatable. To investigate these questions, a novel experiment was designed where people could explore paintings …
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An empirical investigation of how perceived devaluation and income effects influence consumers' intended utilization of savings from coupon redemption.
… that several psychological (e.g. arousal-seeking, novelty-seeking tendency), socio-economic (e.g. income effect, opportunity cost) and behavioral factors (e.g. savings propensity, switching behavior) influence the individual's intention to redeem a coupon. The current research offers …
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The genetics of sports behaviour : the role of the DRD4 gene in sensation seeking in skiers
… over personality traits, especially sensation seeking. One gene thought to influence this behavioural trait is the dopamine-4-receptor gene (DRD4), in which variants have been associated with sensation seeking and novelty seeking in some, but not all studies. The inconsistencies between studies …
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Assoziationsstudien von Kandidatengenen (VMAT2, DAT, BDNF) mit Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen und psychiatrischen Erkrankungen
… die Ausprägung der Persönlichkeitsdimension TPQ-Novelty Seeking (F2,244 = 3,851, p = 0,023) gezeigt werden. Auch ergab sich, dass die Gene des Dopamintransporters und des Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factors die Dimensionen TPQ-Harm Avoidance (F1,266 = 6,868, p = 0,009) und NEO-PI-R-Neurotizismus …
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Psychological correlates of injury, illness and performance in Ironman triathletes
… the predictive value of personality traits (novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence), resilience and general psychological distress in terms of injury, illness and performance in a group of triathletes competing in the 2007 lronman Triathlon. Methods: For this descriptive …
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Towards an evolutionary perspective of bipolar disorders: Is there a genetic link between bipolar disorders and non-pathological (adaptive) hyperactivity?
… with features of well-defined hyperactivity and novelty-seeking. The Questionnaire for Adaptive Hyperactivity and Goal Achievement (AHGA) measures the adaptive characteristics of hyperactivity and goal pursuit in contrast to the Biological Rhythms Interview of Assessment in Neuropsychiatry …
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Marmoset emotional regulation during adolescence and adulthood, with a particular focus on risk-taking and the role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in motivation and affective biases
… adolescence, assessed using a novel object test. Novelty- and sensation-seeking can often be risky, and these behaviours are known to peak during human adolescence (Steinberg et al., 2017). Risk -taking has also been associated with negative mental health outcomes later in life (Smout et al., …
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