# Article on Impulsive Behavior

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**Category:** Pheromone Theory & Molecules\
**Created:** [April 4, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/article-on-impulsive-behavior/267 "2006-04-04T14:02:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![tacitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@tacitus](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/tacitus)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/article-on-impulsive-behavior/267/1 "2006-04-04T14:02:58Z")

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from the New York Times:

"Play hooky, disappear for the weekend, have a fling, binge-shop like a Wall Street divorcée. Spontaneity can be a healthy defiance of routine, an expression of starved desire, some psychologists say.

GAUGING RESTRAINT C. Robert Cloninger said people who can control their impulses “are highly self-directed people.”

Yet for scientists who study [mental illness](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/mentalhealthanddisorders/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and addiction, impulsive behavior — the tendency to act or react with little thought — has emerged as an all-purpose plague.  
In recent years, studies have linked impulsiveness to higher risks of [smoking](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/smoking/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier), drinking and drug abuse. People who attempt [suicide](http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/suicidesandsuicideattempts/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) score highly on measures of impulsivity, as do adolescents with eating problems. Aggression, compulsive gambling, severe personality disorders and attention deficit problems are all associated with high impulsiveness, a problem that affects an estimated 9 percent of Americans, according to a nationwide mental health survey completed last year.  
Now researchers have begun to resolve the contrary nature of impulsivity, identifying the elements that distinguish benign experimentation from self-destructive acts. The latest work, in brain research and psychological studies, helps explain how impulsive tendencies develop and when they can lead people astray. A potent combination of genes and emotionally disorienting early experiences puts people at high risk, as do some very familiar personal instincts…

see article:  
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/health/psychology/04impulse.html](http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/04/health/psychology/04impulse.html)

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**Author:** ![Cloud9](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/cloud9/32/1736_2.png) [@Cloud9](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Cloud9)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/article-on-impulsive-behavior/267/2 "2006-04-04T15:01:07Z")

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Getting out of the same old normal routine i believe is very beneficial. Yet, truely impulsive people generally have a lot of problems in multiple aspects of their life.