While some people have fun playing cards or shopping, other people have fun jumping off cliffs, climbing up ice mountains and smashing into roaring waves.
These extreme sports enthusiasts take on nature’s most menacing qualities, hoping to survive and conquer. Although the definition of “adventure sports” explains the general characteristics of the activity, it does little to express the adrenaline, danger and thrill associated with extreme sports.
Emotions are a signaling system, evolved by providing selective advantage through enhanced survival and reproduction. The selective advantage conferred by thrill or exhilaration, however, remains unknown. Hypotheses, as
