Are You a Risk Taker?
There are people who love the rush of adrenaline they get from staring down risk and danger. Often this adrenaline rush is strong in our teens, then dissipates as we begin to understand our mortality. If you find yourself in a blazing battle and you need a soldier to run out and fetch fresh troops under heavy enemy fire, a young man (late teens/early twenties) is likely to say, "Yeah, yeah, let me at them!" Conversely, if you ask a 30-year-old, you might hear, "Have you lost your ever-loving mind?" However, there are people who love the adrenaline rush at any age, and these hardy souls worship the thrill of danger throughout much of their (often short) lives.
If you are a male risk taker, you may be more attractive to women than your "less courageous" brothers. From an evolutionary perspective, such behaviors led to greater accumulation of resources or demonstrated the abilities necessary to accumulate resources (Buss, 1989). Risk behaviors may have also signaled hardier genes. Guess what? Men prefer risk-taking women in any relationship, including romantic (Bassett, 2004).
Psychopaths are also risk takers, because their emotional levels are very low, almost nonexistent. They do not feel the intense anxieties and fears that might dissuade others from such dangerous activities.
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