Gunnar Breivik
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Norwegian sociologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gunnar Breivik is a Norwegian sociologist. He was born in Oslo. Specializing in the sociology of sports, he was hired as an associate professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in 1975. He was promoted to professor in 1985, and was the rector there since 1999. Sigmund Loland took over in 2005.
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- Sensation seeking as a predictor of positive and negative risk behaviour among adolescents (2001) (179)
- Personality, sensation seeking and risk taking among Everest climbers. (1996) (144)
- Trends in adventure sports in a post-modern society (2010) (106)
- Skillful Coping in Everyday Life and in Sport: A Critical Examination of the Views of Heidegger and Dreyfus (2007) (79)
- Zombie-Like or Superconscious? A Phenomenological and Conceptual Analysis of Consciousness in Elite Sport (2013) (63)
- Doping Games A Game Theoretical Exploration of Doping (1992) (59)
- Personality, psychological states and heart rate in novice and expert parachutists. (1998) (59)
- Activation in novice and expert parachutists while jumping. (1996) (44)
- Attitudes towards use of performance-enhancing substances and body modification techniques. A comparison between elite athletes and the general population (2009) (44)
- Sporting knowledge and the problem of knowing how (2014) (36)
- Being-in-the-Void: A Heideggerian Analysis of Skydiving (2010) (33)
- THE QUEST FOR EXCITEMENT AND THE SAFE SOCIETY (1999) (31)
- Bodily movement – The fundamental dimensions (2008) (30)
- Dangerous Play With the Elements: Towards a Phenomenology of Risk Sports (2011) (28)
- Sensation seeking and risk-taking in the Norwegian population (2017) (24)
- Anti-doping in Sport: The Norwegian Perspective (2006) (18)
- Presidential address philosophic society for the study of sport 1997. Sport in high modernity: sport as a carrier of social values (1998) (18)
- Against chance: a causal theory of winning in sport. (2000) (17)
- Doping games and drug abuse. A study of the relation between preferences, strategies and behavior in connection to doping in Norwegian sports. (2001) (17)
- Risk-Taking and Sensation Seeking in Military Contexts: A Literature Review (2019) (16)
- More active and less fit: changes in physical activity in the adult Norwegian population from 1985 to 2011 (2014) (13)
- The role of skill in sport (2016) (13)
- Philosophical Perfectionism – Consequences and Implications for Sport (2010) (12)
- F. Nansen and the Norwegian outdoor life tradition. (1989) (11)
- What would a deep ecological sport look like? The example of Arne Naess (2019) (9)
- Risk-taking attitudes and behaviors in the Norwegian population: the influence of personality and background factors (2020) (8)
- Searle, Merleau-Ponty, Rizzolatti – three perspectives on Intentionality and action in sport (2017) (8)
- Sport as part of a meaningful life (2021) (7)
- Doping in Norwegian Gyms — (1996) (7)
- From ‘philosophy of sport’ to ‘philosophies of sports’? History, identity and diversification of sport philosophy (2019) (6)
- The Sporting Exploration of the World; Toward a Fundamental Ontology of the Sporting Human Being (2020) (6)
- Risk-taking attitudes and behaviors among military personnel in dangerous contexts. A categorized research bibliography (2015) (6)
- Performance Orientation and Injury Among Military Cadets: The Mediating Role of Disinhibition (2015) (4)
- Philosophy of Sport in the Nordic Countries (2010) (4)
- Skills, knowledge and expertise in sport (2016) (4)
- Can base jumping be morally defended ? (2003) (4)
- Limits to Growth in Elite Sport - Some Ethical Considerations (1998) (4)
- Being, having and belonging: values and ways of engaging in sport (2020) (3)
- ‘Richness in Ends, Simpleness in Means!’ on Arne Naess’s Version of Deep Ecological Friluftsliv and Its Implications for Outdoor Activities (2020) (3)
- Intentionality and Action in Sport: A Discussion of the Views of Searle and Dreyfus (2018) (3)
- Game Theoretic Approaches to Doping in Sport (2015) (2)
- Academic versus Sporting Knowledge. Robert L. Simon and the Debate about Sports on Campus (2016) (1)
- Book Symposium: Kevin Krein’s Philosophy and Nature Sports (2022) (0)
- Telemark Skiing: The Ultimate Norwegian Sport and a Class Phenomenon (2012) (0)
- Introduction: Skills, knowledge and expertise in sport (2018) (0)
- Personality and willingness towards performance enhancement and body modification: A cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative sample of Norwegians (2022) (0)
- [The psychology of daring men and women]. (1986) (0)
- List of Reviewers 2014 (2014) (0)
- Sensation seeking and risk-taking in the Norwegian population Personality and Individual Differences (2018) (0)
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