The Psychobiological Model for Impulsive Unsocialized Sensation Seeking: A Comparative Approach

Zuckerman, Marvin

doi:10.1159/000119303

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“…The norm on the mental rotation task in the study of Hooven et al may also be the reason for the lack of correlations between testosterone and the intercept. Testosterone has been reported to have a positive correlation with a sensation-seeking score (Gerra et al, 1999); sensation seeking is a personal aspect of the willingness to take risks (Zuckerman, 1996). The norm on our mental rotation task may have repressed risk-taking in high-T subjects.…”

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Relationships between Salivary Estradiol and Components of Mental Rotation in Young Men

Kozaki

Yasukouchi

2008

J Physiol Anthropol

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Testosterone and estradiol levels were measured by saliva assays in 15 young men, and their relationships with different processes in a mental rotation task were elucidated. The estradiol level was positively correlated with reaction time; this effect was yielded by the slope of functions relating performance to angular disparity. These findings suggest that estrogen may inhibit the performance of a mental rotation task by affecting perception of the rotation process.

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Relationships between Salivary Estradiol and Components of Mental Rotation in Young Men

Kozaki

Yasukouchi

2008

J Physiol Anthropol

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“…Because sensation seeking is related to brain pathways involved in reward (Zuckerman, 1996), mediating mechanisms that incorporate positive affect are also promising candidates (Romer & Hennessy (2007). One affect-based mechanism is found in the Prototype/ Willingness Model (Gibbons & Gerrard, 1995;Gibbons, Gerrard, & Lane, 2003;Gibbons, Gerrard, Blanton, & Russell, 1998).…”

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Childhood predictors of adolescent marijuana use: Early sensation-seeking, deviant peer affiliation, and social images

Hampson

Andrews

Barckley

2008

Addictive Behaviors

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This study examined psychosocial mechanisms by which children's early sensation seeking may influence their later marijuana use. In a longitudinal study, 4 th and 5 th grade elementary school children (N = 420) were followed until they were in 11 th and 12 th grades in high school with annual or biennial assessments. Sensation seeking (assessed over the first 4 assessments) predicted affiliating with deviant peers and level of favorable social images of kids who use marijuana (both assessed over the subsequent 3 assessments). Affiliation with deviant peers and the growth in social images predicted marijuana use in 11 th and 12 th grades. Affiliation with deviant peers mediated the effect of early sensation seeking on subsequent marijuana use. The theoretical and applied significance of this influence of early sensation seeking is discussed.

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“…NO . 4 Social Impulsivity, 5-HIAA, and Fluoxetine 371A number of models have proposed that the monoaminergic neurotransmitters modulate the expression of basic personality dimensions (Cloninger 1987;Depue et al 1994;Zuckerman 1996). These models generally agree that dopamine is associated with behavioral activation, and serotonin with behavioral inhibition.…”

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“…These models generally agree that dopamine is associated with behavioral activation, and serotonin with behavioral inhibition. For example, Cloninger (1987) links the dopamine system with novelty seeking and serotonin with harm avoidance, while Zuckerman (1996) proposes that impulsive sensation seeking is a joint function of a highly reactive dopaminergic system and a weakly reactive serotonergic system. Empirical research to test the above hypotheses uses a variety of methods to measure impulsivity.…”

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Social Impulsivity Inversely Associated with CSF 5-HIAA and Fluoxetine Exposure in Vervet Monkeys

Fairbanks

Melega

Jorgensen

et al. 2001

Neuropsychopharmacology

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Animal and human research suggests that the central serotonin system is involved in the inhibition of impulsive behavior. Two studies were designed to assess this relationship in male vervet monkeys ( Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus ) using a standardized test of impulsivity in a social context: the Intruder Challenge. In the first study, an index of impulsivity in response to an unfamiliar adult male intruder (including latency to approach and aggressive and assertive interactions) was inversely correlated with levels of the serotonin metabolite, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in cisternal cerebrospinal fluid (r ϭ Ϫ 0.33, p Ͻ .01, n ϭ 138). The approach, but not aggressive, component of the Impulsivity Index was the primary contributor to this relationship (partial r ϭ Ϫ 0.27, p Ͻ .01). The second experiment compared responses to the Intruder Challenge after 9 weeks of daily treatment with fluoxetine (2 mg/kg, i.m.) or vehicle. Fluoxetine-treated subjects ( n ϭ 6) had significantly lower Impulsivity Index scores than controls ( n ϭ 12Impulsivity has been proposed as the common denominator in a variety of psychological disorders and sociological conditions that have been associated with indices of low central serotonergic functioning (Linnoila et al. 1993). For example, low levels of the serotonin metabolite, 5-hydroyxindoleacetic acid (5-HIAA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been related to violent suicide attempts, impulsive fire-setting, violent and unprovoked aggression, and early onset alcoholism (Brown et al. 1982;Mann 1999;Virkkunen et al. 1994). Impulsivity and impulsive aggression have also been associated with blunted response to pharmacological challenges with serotonin agonists in personality-disordered and substance abusing men Moeller et al. 1994). Recently, Manuck et al. (1998) reported significant inverse correlations between prolactin response to fenfluramine and measures of impulsivity and aggressiveness in men from a community-based sample. This latter study suggests that psychosocial disorders involving impulsive aggression may represent the extremes of normal dimensions of personality and underlying neurochemistry. NO . 4 Social Impulsivity, 5-HIAA, and Fluoxetine 371A number of models have proposed that the monoaminergic neurotransmitters modulate the expression of basic personality dimensions (Cloninger 1987;Depue et al. 1994;Zuckerman 1996). These models generally agree that dopamine is associated with behavioral activation, and serotonin with behavioral inhibition. For example, Cloninger (1987) links the dopamine system with novelty seeking and serotonin with harm avoidance, while Zuckerman (1996) proposes that impulsive sensation seeking is a joint function of a highly reactive dopaminergic system and a weakly reactive serotonergic system. Empirical research to test the above hypotheses uses a variety of methods to measure impulsivity. Human studies typically use self-report interviews or questionnaires, but the different inventories designed to measure this construct frequ...

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The Psychobiological Model for Impulsive Unsocialized Sensation Seeking: A Comparative Approach

Cited by 155 publications

References 22 publications

Relationships between Salivary Estradiol and Components of Mental Rotation in Young Men

Relationships between Salivary Estradiol and Components of Mental Rotation in Young Men

Childhood predictors of adolescent marijuana use: Early sensation-seeking, deviant peer affiliation, and social images

Social Impulsivity Inversely Associated with CSF 5-HIAA and Fluoxetine Exposure in Vervet Monkeys

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