A Measure of Arousal Seeking Tendency

ALBERT ME HRABI AN is Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has authored An Analysis of Personality Theories, Tactics of Social Influence, Silent Messages, Nonverbal Communication, and co-authored with Morton Wiener, Language Within Language. His most recent work with James A. Russell, An Approach to Environmental Psychology, is forthcoming from MIT Press.

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