APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Thrilled to Peaces: On the Role of Sensation Seeking in Predicting and Preventing Violence
- Birga Schumpe
New York University Abu Dhabi - Jocelyn Belanger
New York University, Abu Dhabi - Pier-Eric Chamberland
New York University Abu Dhabi - Noëmie Nociti
Université du Québec à Montréal
Abstract
We found a preference for violent activism in individuals high in sensation seeking (Study 1). This preference was explained by how exciting they perceived the activist group to be (Study 2). Study 3 tested an intervention: presenting an exciting but peaceful alternative lowered self-sacrifice, and hence, support for violence.
Motivation
