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sensation seeking

Sensation seeking as a personality trait (Zuckerman): the stable disposition toward novel, varied, and intense experiences and the willingness to take risks to attain them — thrill and adventure seeking, experience seeking, disinhibition, boredom susceptibility, as expressed in fast or stimulating driving. The dispositional trait/motive, distinct from risk_taking, which is the situational decision to accept a specific hazard, and from aggressive_driving, which is hostile overt conduct; sensation_seeking explains why a driver is drawn to risk rather than the act of risking.

100 paper(s) · ranked by relevance to this topic

  1. The impact of drivers’ personality traits on their risky driving behaviors ↗ · 2020 · Al-Tit, Ahmad Adnan · indexed
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  5. The role of subjective risk perception and self-esteem in the relationship between sensation seeking and aberrant behaviors ↗ · 2024 · Herrero-Fernández, David et al. · indexed
  6. Traffic Violations and Errors: The Effects of Sensation Seeking and Attention · 2005 · Ayvaşık, H Belgin et al. · archived
  7. The influence of the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory on risk perception and intentions to speed in young male and female drivers · 2019 · Logan, Emily et al. · archived
  8. Effects of Personality on Risky Driving Behavior and Accident Involvement for Chinese Drivers ↗ · 2012 · Yang, Jiaoyan et al. · indexed
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  10. A Study on the Relationship Between Personality and Driving Styles ↗ · 2012 · Poó, Fernando Martín et al. · indexed
  11. Learning to Take Risks: Risk-Taking by Young Male Drivers in the ACT 1 ↗ · 2004 · Styles, T et al. · indexed
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  13. Factors influencing emotional driving: examining the impact of arousal on the interplay between age, personality, and driving behaviors · 2025 · Shangguan, Zhegong et al. · archived
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  15. Learning to take risks: the influence of age and experience on risky driving behaviour in the ACT ↗ · 2004 · Styles, T et al. · indexed
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  30. Understanding the psychosocial factors influencing the risky behaviour of young drivers · 2009 · Bridie Scott‐Parker et al. · archived
  31. Resources and Tools to Reduce Multiple Risky Driving Behaviors · 2024 · Finley, Kari et al. · archived
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  37. Distress Tolerance as a Predictor of Risky and Aggressive Driving ↗ · 2013 · Beck, Kenneth H. et al. · indexed
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  44. Does adolescent risk taking imply weak executive function? A prospective study of relations between working memory performance, impulsivity, and risk taking in early adolescence ↗ · 2011 · Römer, Daniel et al. · indexed
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  46. Understanding risk taking by young male drivers ↗ · 2005 · Styles, T et al. · indexed
  47. How Age, Driving Experience, and Gender Interact in Predicting Dangerous Driving Behavior ↗ · 2026 · Ramos-Moreno, María Ángeles et al. · indexed
  48. Need Safer Taxi Drivers? Use Psychological Characteristics to Find or Train! ↗ · 2020 · Aghabayk, Kayvan et al. · indexed
  49. Proposal and validation of a questionnaire to investigate risk behavior of drivers from Brazil and Portugal · 2017 · Campos, Cíntia Isabel de et al. · archived
  50. Expression of anger while driving - personality and self-consciousness in Chinese drivers · 2023 · Zhai, Chenzhao et al. · archived
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  54. The relationship of driving skills of students driving with their individual psychological features · 2019 · Bebinov S.E. et al. · archived
  55. Motivations for Speeding - Additional Data Analysis [Traffic Tech] · 2016 · NHTSA · archived
  56. Motivations for Speeding [Traffic Tech] · 2012 · NHTSA · archived
  57. Situational Action Theory to Understand Risky Driving Behaviours in Beach Environments · 2024 · Anderson, Levi et al. · archived
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  59. A study of the factors affecting driving risk perception using the Bivariate Ordered Probit model ↗ · 2022 · Sahebi, Sina et al. · indexed
  60. The Effect of Driving Style on Responses to Unexpected Vehicle Cyberattacks · 2023 · Zhang, Fangda et al. · archived
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  62. Subjective assessment of traffic rules compliance in Bulgaria: Role of personality and driving style ↗ · 2024 · Totkova, Zornitsa · indexed
  63. Emotion behind the Wheel: Emotional (dys)Regulation on Young Driving Behaviour - Systematic Review · 2024 · Pizzo, Alessandra et al. · archived
  64. Why are there sex differences in risky driving? the relationship between sex and gender‐role on aggressive driving, traffic offences, and accident involvement among young turkish drivers ↗ · 2005 · Özkan, Türker et al. · indexed
  65. Covariability in three dimensions of teenage driving risk behavior: impaired driving, risky and unsafe driving behavior, and secondary task engagement ↗ · 2015 · Bruce G. Simons‐Morton et al. · indexed
  66. The Influence of Personality Traits on Driving Behaviors in Preclinical Alzheimer Disease ↗ · 2025 · Carr, David et al. · indexed
  67. Measuring driving styles · 2015 · van Huysduynen, Hanneke Hooft et al. · archived
  68. Analysis of SHRP2 Speeding Data · 2020 · Richard, Christian M. et al. · archived
  69. Risky Driving Attitudes and Self - Reported Traffic Violations Among Turkish Drivers : the Case of Eskişehir ↗ · 2006 · Yılmaz, Veysel et al. · indexed
  70. ADHD Symptomatology and Risky Health, Driving, and Financial Behaviors in College ↗ · 2014 · Graziano, Paulo A. et al. · indexed
  71. Trajectories of kinematic risky driving among novice teenagers ↗ · 2012 · Simons-Morton, Bruce G. et al. · indexed
  72. The need for speed: An investigation on the psychological dysfunction underlying risky driving behaviors in crystal methamphetamine users ↗ · 2026 · Love, Steven et al. · indexed
  73. Type A Behavior Pattern, Risky Driving Behaviors, and Serious Road Traffic Accidents: A Prospective Study of the GAZEL Cohort ↗ · 2005 · Nabi, Hermann et al. · indexed
  74. Mobile Phone Use “on the Road”: A Self-Report Study on Young Drivers · 2021 · Fraschetti, Angelo et al. · archived
  75. What determines drivers’ speed? A replication of three behavioural adaptation experiments in a single driving simulator study · 2018 · Melman, Timo et al. · archived
  76. The Effect of Reminders of Death on Reckless Driving ↗ · 2000 · Taubman — Ben-Ari, Orit · indexed
  77. Cross-cultural perspective of driving style in young adults: Psychometric evaluation through the analysis of the Multidimensional Driving Style Inventory ↗ · 2020 · Freuli, Francesca et al. · indexed
  78. A novel hazard avoidance model based on young drivers’ characteristics: A driving simulator study ↗ · 2024 · Asadamraji, Morteza et al. · indexed
  79. Neural heterogeneity underlying late adolescent reward processing is linked to individual differences in behavioral sensation seeking. ↗ · 2021 · Demidenko, Michael I et al. · indexed
  80. Analysis of SHRP2 Speeding Data [Traffic Tech] · 2020 · NHTSA · archived
  81. Risky driving behaviours among stimulant drug users and the role of aggression: findings from a national survey ↗ · 2019 · Hayley, Amie C. et al. · indexed
  82. Understanding Risky Behavior in Sustainable Driving among Young Adults: Exploring Social Norms, Emotional Regulation, Perceived Behavioral Control, and Mindfulness ↗ · 2024 · Marian, Andrei-Lucian et al. · indexed
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  85. Impact of Personality on Takeover Time and Maneuvers Shortly After Takeover Request ↗ · 2024 · Huang, Chao et al. · indexed
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  87. Indices for characterizing driving style and their relevance to car following behavior ↗ · 2007 · Ishibashi, Motonori et al. · indexed
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  89. MAVERIC: A Data-Driven Approach to Personalized Autonomous Driving · 2024 · Schrum, Mariah et al. · archived
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  91. The impact of mortality salience on reckless driving: A test of terror management mechanisms. ↗ · 1999 · Ben-Ari, Orit Taubman et al. · indexed
  92. What's Driving Me? Exploration and Validation of a Hierarchical Personality Model for Trust in Automated Driving · 2020 · Kraus, Johannes et al. · archived
  93. Examining the impact of driving style on the predictability and responsiveness of the driver: Real-world and simulator analysis ↗ · 2010 · Doshi, Anup et al. · indexed
  94. Testing models of driver behaviour ↗ · 2012 · Lewis-Evans, Ben · indexed
  95. Problematic substance use and implications for road safety: An investigation on psychological dysfunction and risky driving styles · 2024 · Love, Steven et al. · archived
  96. Hyperactive–impulsive ADHD traits predict higher curiosity in adults: evidence from a cross-sectional study · 2026 · Le Cunff, Anne-Laure et al. · archived
  97. Self-Reported Impulsivity and its Relation to Executive Functions in Interned Youth · 2017 · Nordvall, Olov et al. · archived
  98. Enhanced reactive inhibition in adolescents with non‐suicidal self‐injury disorder ↗ · 2024 · Mirabella, Giovanni et al. · indexed
  99. Visual P3 amplitude and self‐reported psychopathic personality traits: Frontal reduction is associated with self‐centered impulsivity ↗ · 2008 · Carlson, Scott R. et al. · indexed
  100. Differential effects of social and non‐social reward on response inhibition in children and adolescents ↗ · 2009 · Kohls, Gregor et al. · indexed