Sensation seeking is a trait describing the tendency to seek novel, varied, complex, and
intense sensations and experiences and the willingness to take risks for the sake of such …

Previous research with both animal and human Ss has shown that startle reflex magnitude is
potentiated in an aversive stimulus context, relative to responses elicited in a neutral or …

Human beings have been subjected to the effects of both natural and man‐made disasters
for centuries. How humans have coped with catastrophes has been recorded through …

Affective habituation (ie, reductions in stimulus-evoked affective reactions as a result of
previous exposure) may serve a functional purpose. However, little is know about the …

Exploration is one of the most powerful behaviours that drive learning from infancy to
adulthood. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of novelty and subjective …

Examined emotional arousal in response to media violence. 36 male and 36 female affluent
White undergraduates and 39 male and 39 female residents of an inner-city housing project …

Der literarische Diskurs ist an der Formierung von› Gewalt‹ als einem sich kulturell und
historisch wandelnden Interpretationskonstrukt beteiligt (s. Kap IV. 3). Gewalt kommt in der …

Homo homini lupus (Plautus, ca. 250 v. Chr. bis ca. 184v. Chr., aufgegriffen vom englischen
Philosophen Thomas Hobbes)—der Mensch ist dem Menschen Wolf. Wir sind nicht friedlich …

For those of us who grew up during the post-World War II era, a special event occurred once
a year when the television networks treated us to The Wizard of Oz. We witnessed the gray …

This paper explores the immediate psychological and physiological effects of aversive visual
stimuli, represented as pictures of war, in a balanced mixed design (n= 24). The moderating …