| Abstract: | 3 STUDIES CONDUCTED AT 3 DIFFERENT UNIVERSITIES TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS OF A RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A SENSATION-SEEKING TENDENCY AND VOLUNTEERING FOR EXPERIMENTS IN HYPNOSIS AND SENSORY DEPRIVATION. MALE AND FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES WHO VOLUNTEERED FOR HYPNOSIS EXPERIMENTS WERE FOUND TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER ON THE SENSATION-SEEKING SCALE (SSS) THAN NONVOLUNTEERS. FEMALES VOLUNTEERING FOR SENSORY DEPRIVATION EXPERIMENTS WERE HIGHER ON THE SSS THAN NONVOLUNTEERS, BUT MALE VOLUNTEERS WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER IN ONLY 1 OF THE 2 SAMPLES TESTED. MARKED UNIVERSITY POPULATION DIFFERENCES WERE FOUND ON THE SSS, AND THESE DIFFERENCES BORE SOME RELATION TO THE MAGNITUDE OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VOLUNTEERS AND NONVOLUNTEERS WITHIN EACH SEX GROUP. NO RELATIONS BETWEEN BIRTH ORDER, HYPOMANIA, ANXIETY, AND VOLUNTEERING WERE FOUND IN THE STUDIES WHERE THEY WERE EXAMINED. (17 REF.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
