In our search for why individuals partake in sensation seeking, I came across a fairly interesting, albeit lengthy and somewhat boring article. This article essentially thoroughly analyzed how individuals come to participate, willingly, in such high risk activities. The article's authors developed a dramatic behavior model that includes several key findings:
1. an evolution of motives that explain initial continuing participation in high risk activities, and (2) a coinciding evolution of risk acculturation that leads to the normalization of risk. Basically, that the motivation for participating in these activities is constantly evolving as an individual becomes more "normalized" worth the risks, weather they be controllable or uncontrollable to their given actividy.
After reading this article, I would like to comment on several things. First, that personally, I beleive that most people who participate in these dangerous actividies don't have a death wish, they have a life wish. I say if you are going to get maimed/killed, why not it be doing something that you enjoy.
Also, the article first discussed the essence of risk. I would like to expound upon this theme of risk in that i agree with the statement that risk "is an agquired taste", that when you start out thinking that something is really risky, then get used it, it loses its risk appeal. more to follow on this subject.
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