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... Locus of Control Test (3) and the Sensation Seeking Scale (4)--in an effort to substantiate MR...80:1-28. . (4) Zuckerman, Marvin. 1994. Behavioral expressions and biosocia...
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After taking the Myers-Briggs personality test, a person is categorized by four of eight distinguishing factors, but these classifications are only some of the many ways people can be understood.
For thousands of years, people have been trying to describe people," says Dr. Thomas Wise, director of psychiatry and behavioral services at Inova Health Systems in Fairfax. "In the time of Hippocrates, people were labeled as 'phlegmatic' or 'bilious.'
... is revealed by measuring the seeking of sensation, says Marvin Zuckerman, professor emeritus at the ...
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... delight and novelty explanations is the sensation-seeking view, originated by Marvin Zuckerman, a ps...
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After Jon Tierney skied off a cornice in Alaska last year and fractured his spine, he had plenty of time to stop and think about whether he should make some changes in his life.
He had spent three decades in the mountains, and this training injury was his first as a climber. He thought about all the intangibles that draw people like himself into the sport. Personal challenge. A chance to explore the unknown. An opportunity to get away from the calendar and the clock and make his own decisions.
...Marvin Zuckerman, a retired professor of psychology from ... University of Delaware, calls Type T's "sensation seekers." He developed a psychological scale to me...
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Lack of control is often considered a valid excuse in criminal law. Most valid control excuses are best understood as stemming from defects in rationality. They cannot be justified by determinism, lack of intention, defects of will, irresistible impulses or lack of ability to choose. Application of the philosophy of action to this aspect of criminal law suggests that such claims of loss of control rest on unexamined complexities and tend to confuse the issue. Control excuses related to duress, internal coercion, psychopathy, unconscious motivation, dissociative states, deprivation and new syndromes are discussed.
... Correlates, in Biological Bases of Sensation Seeking, Impulsivity, and Anxiety 77 (Marvin Zucke...
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The administration of juvenile justice should incorporate rehabilitative and retributive dimensions. Young offenders pass through the juvenile system during the time they are forming lifelong habits they will carry into adulthood. In contrast to current reform debate about abolishing the juvenile system or making it more like the adult criminal system, the juvenile system should develop effective rehabilitative programs along with retributive programs.
...(127) Moreover, fundamental abilities of sensation, perception, and memory ordinarily have matured by.... (66) Marvin Wolfgang's famous study found that 6% of the juven...Mortimer Zuckerman, War on Crime, By the Numbers, U.S. NEWS & WORLD R...