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A hypothesis that breadth of categorization would increase linearly with increases in the stimulation-seeking motive was tested on 43 males and 43 females, using Pettigrew’s Category Width measure and a measure of individual differences in the stimulation-seeking motive. The results did not Support the work of Taylor and Levitt (1967). There was a slight trend toward between stimulation seeking and category breadth but the and earlier work suggested the conclusion that there is no reliable seeking motive and conceptual category breadth.
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Farley, F.H., Peterson, J.M. & Whalen, T.J. The stimulation-seeking motive: Relationship to conceptual category breadth. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 3, 449–451 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333524
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