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Emotions are a signaling system, evolved by providing selective advantage through enhanced survival and reproduction. The selective advantage conferred by thrill or exhilaration, however, remains unknown. Hypotheses, as yet untested, include
Jul 1, 2018 · Extreme sports can provide an ethically and experimentally feasible tool to analyze thrill. To use this tool, extreme sports must first be defined in a non-circular way, independent of participant ...
Jul 24, 2018 · Here, I examine that context, and use it to identify a definition that is theoretically coherent, avoids circularity, and can be implemented in practice. I propose this definition as a basis for future analysis of thrill, using participants in extreme sports as experimental subjects. Human emotions can be studied from many different perspectives.
- Ralf C. Buckley
- 2018
The regression analysis indicated that preventive coping with weather stress in hiking was predicted by activity, emotional reactivity, briskness, sensory sensitivity, experience seeking, agreeableness and conscientiousness, and proactive coping with bad weather in hikingwas predicted by endurance, activity, thrill and adventure seeking and extraversion.
Emotions are a signaling system, evolved by providing selective advantage through enhanced survival and reproduction. The selective advantage conferred by thrill or exhilaration, however, remains unknown. Hypotheses, as yet untested, include overcoming phobias or honing physical skills as juveniles, or exhibiting desirability during mate selection. Extreme sports can provide an ethically and ...
Sep 20, 2016 · Similarly, a study of young skydivers that identifies thrill seeking as a primary motivation might incorrectly extrapolate that all skydivers participate to experience thrills. In this chapter, we define extreme sports as independent adventure activities where a mismanaged mistake or accident is most likely to result in death . Activities that ...
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changeably with extreme sports to describe the same type of activity. At times the term extreme sport has been used to refer to nontraditional com-petitive youth sports, such as skateboarding and BMX. At other times it has been used to refer to activities requiring little skill or expert knowl-edge, such as commercial rafting and bungee jumping.