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Sensation seeking or novelty seeking is a personality trait. In the revised version of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-R) novelty seeking consists of the following four subscales:

  1. Exploratory excitability (NS1)
  2. Impulsiveness (NS2)
  3. Extravagance (NS3)
  4. Disorderliness (NS4)



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Biological basis[]

Novelty seeking has been suggested to be related to low dopaminergic activity.[1]


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Reference[]

  1. C. R. Cloninger (Autumn 1986). A unified biosocial theory of personality and its role in the development of anxiety states. Psychiatric Developments 4 (3): 167–166.