Kenneth Carter's Blog

They cliff-dive. Run with the bulls. Drive ambulances. Chase tornadoes. We all know thrill-seekers when we meet them.

But even if you’re not an extreme thrill-seeker, there’s still probably some part of the larger concept to which thrill-seeking belongs that applies to you, too.

Click here to read or listen to WABE's Kate Sweeney's story about my book on sensation seeking.

http://wabe.org/post/think-you-re-not-sensation-seeker-think-again

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By Elaine Justice | May 6, 2014

From Emory News Center http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/05...

Whether you're a thrill seeker, or someone who'd rather be safe than sorry, clinical psychologist Ken Carter is looking for you.

Emory psychology professor Ken Carter is turning to social media to gather information on high sensation seekers. Emory Photo/Video.

Carter, professor of psychology at Emory University's Oxford College, is casting a wide net...

Cliff diving and sky diving isn't something you think a person would do if they are afraid of heights. Read my interview with thrill seeker Mike A to find out why he does these things as often as he can!

This is a first in a series of interviews of high sensation seeking individuals. Go to drkencarter.com/buzz to learn more about sensation seeking and to take a sensation seeking survey yourself.

Mike A is a 20 year old intern living in Atlanta. Here are his sensation seeking scores and some of...

I'm collapsing all of my blogs (sensation seeking, psychopharmacology, DSM-5, and Learn Psychology) into one blog named PsyKnow. Take a look! www.drkencarter.com/blog

-Dr. Ken Carter

BASE jumping is a classic High Sensation Seeking Personality activity. It hits on pretty much every single one of the 4 components of sensation seeking. What makes this more of a dangerous activity are the arrests that can come from the jumps.

Take a look at this article. It describes and SHOWS 8 famous jumps! Would you do that?

Take a sensation seeking test

by Na’eem Gibson

High sensation seekers tend to seek a wide array of sensations to satisfy their urges and impulses. Ranging from relatively low risk activities such as skydiving or recreational drug use, to dangerous activities like reckless driving and drug abuse, high sensation seekers tend to find themselves apart of experiences involving such as those previously mentioned. In a study conducted by James P. Zacny, he came to find that like many other drugs, oxycodone had varying effects...

To some, Boredom Susceptibility may sound like the most harmless component of sensation seeking. After all, what’s the worst thing that could even come out of simple boredom? More than you think.

As it turns out, many issues may indeed result from Boredom Susceptibility in sensation seekers. One example has been highlighted in a study by Dr. David Sanbonmatsu, Dr. David Strayer, Dr. Nathan Medeiros-Ward, and Dr. Jason Watson, whose examination of individual multi-tasking ability has presented...

Hello Dr. Carter,

I attended your workshop on the DSM-5. First of all, thank you for an excellent, informative and engaging workshop. I had asked about coding for a patient who would have been diagnosed with Polysubstance dependence in the DSM-IV-TR. It wasn't clear to me if I was expected to catalog all of the substances that were abused or if I should use the "Other" category and specify multiple substances.

Thank you for inviting me to follow up with you on this matter.

Hi,

Yes. That's my un...

While #highsensationseeking can seem like a huge problem, it's not all about people neglecting their kids and jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. We need people high sensation seeking personalities (especially the low sensation seeking people like myself) in our society.

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