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There's no better feeling than the thrill of crossing the finish line of the Marathon...
...vocabulary of a gross-out scriptwriter. Some movie people shiver when they think of great film scenes: Gloria Swanson descending the stairs at the end of Sunset Boulevard, or Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains walking into the fog at the conclusion of Casablanca. Gross-out writers receive a similar thrill when they remember John Belushi filling his mouth with mashed potatoes in Animal House--and then popping his cheeks and spewing out the contents...
...Psychologist Frank Farley of the University of Wisconsin tells it, many of the world's daredevils, doers and delinquents share a common personality, Type T (for thrill seeking). Whether scientists or criminals, mountain climbers or hot-dog skiers, says Farley, all are driven by temperament, and perhaps biology, to a life of constant stimulation and risk taking. Both the socially useful and the socially appalling Type Ts, he says, "are rejecting the strictures, the laws, the regulations--they are pursuing the unknown, the uncertain...
Farley, 48, has spent 20 years of study to reach his Type T theory. In one series of tests with student volunteers at Madison, Wis., he made a connection between drinking and thrill seeking. While non-T personalities may drink to grow numb, Type Ts drink to shed inhibitions and are prone to act disruptively while under the influence. Says Farley: "It's experimenting with forbidden fruit." He finds that Type Ts have twice as many automobile accidents as non- Ts, and many even make a point of driving while drunk for the added excitement and risk. "We have become...
...asked to make a circle around a design they like best, Type Ts tend to choose complex patterns. In studies that Farley ran at schools for juvenile delinquents, he found, as expected, that Type Ts were four to seven times as likely to try to escape as non-thrill seekers, presumably because they found prison life so intolerably dull and routine. The studies also showed that Type Ts at prisons engaged in fighting and other disruptive acts at a far higher rate than their fellow inmates...