scholarly journals The Examination of Kick-Box Athletes Freedom Perceived in Time and Thrill Seeking Levels

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-81
Author(s):  
Hakan Bilgen ◽  
Oğuzhan Yüksel
Keyword(s):  
Thrill Seeking

Psychological Factors Related to Employees' Theft in the Convenience Store Industry

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1219-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Terris ◽  
John Jones
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Adverse Impact ◽  
Convenience Store ◽  
Counterproductive Behavior ◽  
Protected Group ◽  
Behavior Study ◽  
Industry Study ◽  
Financial Need ◽  
Thrill Seeking

Four studies are presented that examine various aspects of theft in the convenience store industry. Study 1 was a survey of both managers' ( n = 24) and retail clerks' ( n = 54) opinions on how and why convenience store employees steal. Results showed that the most frequently used theft techniques involved various ways of stealing cash from a register. Major reasons for employees' theft included financial need, low wages, revenge, and thrill-seeking. Major perceptions about why some employees never steal included fear of apprehension and personal honesty. Study 2 ( N = 61) showed that convenience store employees with more tolerant attitudes toward theft and violence, as measured by a pre-employment psychological test, the Personnel Selection Inventory, were more likely to engage in theft and other types of counterproductive behavior. Study 3 showed that the use of the inventory for 19 months by a 30-unit convenience store chain, for the purpose of screening out potential employee thieves and other counterproductive employees, was reliably more effective in reducing company shrinkage than a pre-employment polygraph procedure that was used for 23 months. Finally, Study 4 showed that the inventory had no adverse impact upon any protected group. Implications of these findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Gender-specific expression of the DRD4 gene on adolescent delinquency, anger and thrill seeking

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Dmitrieva ◽  
Chuansheng Chen ◽  
Ellen Greenberger ◽  
Oladele Ogunseitan ◽  
Yuan-Chun Ding
Keyword(s):  
Adolescent Delinquency ◽  
Drd4 Gene ◽  
Specific Expression ◽  
Thrill Seeking ◽  
Gender Specific

Thrill Seeking

2010 ◽  
pp. 1314-1314
Author(s):  
Marc Turiault ◽  
Caroline Cohen ◽  
Guy Griebel ◽  
David E. Nichols ◽  
Britta Hahn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thrill Seeking

T behavior: Psychological implications of thrill-seeking/risk-taking

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Sarshar ◽  
Frank Farley ◽  
Catherine A. Fiorello ◽  
Joseph DuCette
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Thrill Seeking

SPORTS PREFERENCE AND DIGIT RATIO (2D:4D) AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS IN WROCŁAW, POLAND

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 623-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Kociuba ◽  
Slawomir Kozieł ◽  
Raja Chakraborty ◽  
Zofia Ignasiak
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Prenatal Growth ◽  
Fourth Digit ◽  
Voluntary Choice ◽  
Thrill Seeking

SummaryHumans exhibit sex differences in competitiveness, sensation seeking and risk-taking attitude, which are required in sports. These attributes are often linked to prenatal testosterone (PT) exposure. The second-to-fourth digit length ratio (2D:4D) is an indicator of PT exposure. A lower 2D:4D indicates higher PT exposure and vice versa. Males generally have a lower 2D:4D than females. Sensation- and/or thrill-seeking behaviours have also been found to be negatively associated with 2D:4D. Boxing and judo are considered to be high-risk sports. Voluntary participation in judo/boxing in contrast to aerobics can be guided by such behaviours and thus have an association with lower 2D:4D. This cross-sectional study included 167 female students from a military academy in Wrocław, Poland. Of them, 119 had voluntarily chosen aerobic exercise, and 48 opted for judo/boxing. Height, weight and second and fourth digit lengths were measured. Physical fitness was assessed using Eurofit tests. The two groups showed similar physical fitness and body size. However, the judo/boxing group had significantly lower mean 2D:4D values than the aerobics group. It is proposed that voluntary choice of participation in a sport discipline by women could be linked to the ‘organizational’ effect of intrauterine testosterone exposure during prenatal growth.

Grass

Anthropology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Malek
Keyword(s):  
Return Migration ◽  
Racial Ideology ◽  
Documentary Films ◽  
Zagros Mountains ◽  
Ethnographic Film ◽  
The North ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Southwestern Iran ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Thrill Seeking

Seeking to capture a “natural drama” of epic proportions, in 1924 three American explorers spurred by wanderlust—Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack, and Marguerite Harrison—traveled to the Middle East and filmed the semiannual migration of the Bakhtiari tribes and their flocks from winter to summer pastures. Filmed over forty-six days and only two years after the release of Nanook of the North (1922), the result became Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life (1925). Unlike Nanook, the majority of the captivating shots that formed Grass were neither set up nor reenacted, nor could they be: the film documents the movement of an estimated 50,000 people and 500,000 animals crossing treacherous icy rivers, climbing harrowing steep cliffs, and undertaking barefoot hikes up the snowy terrain of the Zagros mountains of southwestern Iran. Critically, the film garnished generally positive reviews, but reviewers at the time repeatedly described the film as incomplete, bemoaning the lack of a central family, a romance, or a complete classical narrative—criticisms also leveled by both Cooper and Schoedsack. Despite an intent to film the return migration several months later to fill in these gaps, a lack of resources forced the filmmakers to make do with what they had captured. Padded with travelogue footage and intertitles to reach feature-length by Paramount, the migration itself is represented in the second half of Grass, highlighted by Schoedsack’s graceful compositions of long shots depicting the zigzag lines of migrating families and herds along breathtaking cliffs and across raging rivers. The lowlights, however, include Orientalist, essentializing, overdramatic, and wisecracking titles that reveal a problematic racial ideology and a self-congratulatory depiction of the heroism of the filmmakers, leading the Bakhtiari to be viewed by Western audiences as noble savages and primitive ancestors. Despite these shortcomings, Grass is counted among the first documentary films, valued for its cinematic innovations and ethnographic contributions, and it has inspired numerous Iranian filmmakers to document tribal migrations in the 20th century. Historians of ethnographic film frequently cite Grass alongside Nanook as the earliest films to document indigenous groups’ practices; they also almost uniformly describe Grass as ethnographic by accident or in spite of itself. Meanwhile, film historians have routinely considered Cooper and Schoedsack’s “natural dramas” filmed in Iran, Thailand, Indonesia, and East Africa as forming a crucial trajectory from thrill-seeking explorers to innovators on Hollywood soundstages, culminating in their most famous film, King Kong (Atlanta: Turner Home Entetainment).

scholarly journals Participation in thrill-seeking activities by patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Individual preferences, adverse events and physician attitude

2019 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Papoutsidakis ◽  
Stephen Heitner ◽  
Jodie Ingles ◽  
Christopher Semsarian ◽  
Meghan Mannello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Individual Preferences ◽  
Physician Attitude ◽  
Thrill Seeking

scholarly journals Men procuring sexual services from women: everyman or peculiar man?

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Birch ◽  
Jane Ireland
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
New South ◽  
Criminal History ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Thrill Seeking ◽  
Sexual Services ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Do So

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore characteristics of men procuring sexual services from women. Design/methodology/approach – This is a quantitative study using questionnaires and purposive sampling. The sample was from New South Wales, Australia, and included brothels and outreach organisations where sex work is decriminalised. The participants were 309 men who reported procuring sexual services with women. Findings – Primary motivations for procurement included thrill/excitement and attractiveness of the sex worker. Cluster analysis identified five groups, the most frequent being those with a drive for exciting, thrill-seeking sex with an attractive partner and those with the same drive but not wanting investment. High proportions of men were married, in professional employment and did not present with a criminal history. Sexual experiences procured were conventional. Procurement presented as an enduring behaviour maintained across decades, commencing at a young age. Involvement in procurement preceded decriminalisation. Practical implications – The results do not support men's procurement as primarily “deviant”. Professionals may need to explicitly enquire about such behaviour where relevant to do so (e.g. in discussing sexual health) and in doing so ensure procurement is discussed as normative and not as unusual behaviour. Originality/value – Challenges any conceptualisation of procurement as deviant, extending the research base further by capturing users of such services as opposed to attitudes towards procurement.

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