Sensation seeking and short-term sensory isolation.
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Vol. 24 (1) , 46-52
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0033392
Abstract
Used the Sensation-Seeking Scale (SSS) to predict Ss' need for visual stimulation during a 2-hr sensory isolation experiment with 20 male and 20 female college sophomores. S's rate of using freely available visual stimuli during isolation was time-sampled across the 2 hr. Digital skin resistance was also measured. It was found that high scorers on the SSS used freely available visual stimuli at a higher rate (p < .025), and that skin resistance decrease was associated with higher use of visual stimuli (p < .01). No relationship was found between the SSS and the skin resistance function. Results are discussed in terms of a distinction between stimulus seeking and discomfort in isolation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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