Ep. 99: Ask a boffin – surviving the unsurvivable

We’ve got your favorite scientist Eileen Marks-Nelson back with us to answer more super weird science questions! This time she’s tackling tips for how to survive scenarios that are nearly impossible to make it out of alive!   Highlights: [0:00] Mark tells CoRri and Eileen about the strange case of the dog suicide bridge[18:02] Thanks for coming to our watch-along and for your Ko-fi support![26:00] Eileen explains sensation-seeking behavior, and administers a test to find out where Mark and CoRri stand on the scale[61:11] We get into surviving (or NOT surviving) some unsurvivable situations Stuff we referenced: Zuckerman, M. (1994). Behavioral Expressions and Biosocial Bases of Sensation Seeking. (p 27) Lust for Life | Psychology Today Sensation seeking and risk-taking – ScienceDirect Sex Differences in the Developmental Trajectories of Impulse Control and Sensation-Seeking from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood | SpringerLink Steinberg 2007 | PDF | Executive Functions | Adolescence (scribd.com) Around the world, adolescence is a time of heightened sensation seeking and immature self‐regulation (wiley.com) Testosterone exposure, dopaminergic reward, and sensation-seeking in young men – PubMed (nih.gov) A twin study on sensation seeking, risk taking behavior and marijuana use – ScienceDirect Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences – PubMed (nih.gov) Genetic underpinnings of risky behaviour relate to altered neuroanatomy – PubMed (nih.gov) Genetically influenced change in sensation seeking drives the rise of delinquent behavior during adolescence (utexas.edu) Sensation Seeking | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication Dopamine Promotes Cognitive Effort by Biasing the Benefits Versus Costs of Cognitive Work – PMC (nih.gov) Dopamine and desire (apa.org) Why We Take Risks — It’s the Dopamine – TIME...