Ken Carter

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Short Wave · This July 4th, are you a thrill- or chill-seeker? · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

And that's why two people can have the same experience, but really their bodies are reacting in a very different way.

Yeah, there's some genetics involved in it, for sure.

The environment plays a piece as well.

Mm-hmm.

There's some evidence that high sensation seekers had some sort of unpredictable chaotic experiences in general when they were younger.

But a lot of it tends to be genetic.

That's why you see a lot of thrill seekers that can sort of run in families.

Yeah, and so that's something a little bit different.

So what I study is sensation-seeking as a personality trait, which can change a little bit over time.

But there are some things that might cause people to sort of seek that chaos a little bit later, which might include some trauma kinds of experiences.

And so what I look at is whether or not this is the kind of thing that's sort of always been like this, or did something happen that sort of may have pivoted them towards sort of seeking chaotic experiences.

We also know that a lot of those high sensation seekers are – like they pick careers where there are going to be a lot of chaos and there's going to be a good amount of high sensation seeking involved in that.

Whether it's firefighters or first responders or military, a lot of high sensation seekers are drawn to those careers because of their superpower of being able to be calm in those chaotic experiences.

Yeah.

So the original researcher that really looked at this was someone named Zuckerman.

And I've done some modifications to his brief sensation-seeking survey.

And there's four different pieces to it.

So you actually might be a sensation seeker but not realize it because you may actually score high in one level but a little bit lower in another level.

Yeah.

So the four categories, number one is called thrill and adventure seeking, like driving fast or dangerous kinds of things that are really involved sort of body sensations.

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