"There is a gene that seems to be associated with adventure-seeking behavior, " says Putnam.
Due to the stigma of seeking help, Miller adds that it behooves companies to encourage help-seeking behavior.
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That should have stimulated profit-seeking behavior by the universities, but few, aside from MIT, Stanford and the University of Wisconsin, have displayed a flair for it.
Men also are more likely to display sensation-seeking behavior.
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Dr. Samuel Putnam , an assistant professor of psychology at Bowdoin College in Maine, says thrill seeking behavior is mostly genetic, and that signs of it--from climbing the highest tree to swinging as high as possible on a swing set--can be recognized from very early ages.
That unconscious status-seeking motives largely drive human behavior is a major theme of recent work in evolutionary psychology.
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Rather than seeking external excuses for bad behavior, James urged readers to develop countervailing habits of good behavior.
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Sounds like a simple case of bad behavior by a rep seeking an edge.
The desire to fly an airplane has been shown to represent one aspect of a sensation-seeking personality, a genetic trait associated with risky behavior involving driving, sex, sports and vocation, according to psychology studies.
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For example, the slippery slope concern is a proper brake on public policy when a given policy seeking to curb a specific, discreet problem would have a likelihood of curbing similar behavior that is in fact not a problem, and indeed, behavior that might be of value to the society.
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