Overconfidence in its various manifestations has been extensively discussed in the chapter. Sensation-seeking on the other hand is a personality trait whose four dimensions are thrill and adventure seeking (i.e., a desire to engage in thrilling and even dangerous activities); experience seeking (i.e., the desire to have new and exciting experiences, even if illegal); disinhibition (i.e., behaviors associated with a loss of social inhibitions); and boredom susceptibility (i.e., dislike of repetition of experience).