The authors review a range of evidence concerning the motivational underpinnings of anger
as an affect, with particular reference to the relationship between anger and anxiety or fear …

Understanding subjective well-being (SWB) has historically been a core human endeavor
and presently spans fields from management to mental health. Previous meta-analyses …

Abstract The Big Five is often represented as an effective taxonomy of psychological traits,
yet little research has empirically examined whether stand-alone assessments of …

The present research examined the role of approach and avoidance motivation in models of
personality. Specifically, it examined the hypothesis that approach and avoidance …

Gray [In HJ Eysenck, A model for personality (pp. 246–276). New York: Springer; 1981; The
neuropsychology of anxiety: an enquiry into the functions of the septo-hippocampal system …

Many patients show no or incomplete responses to current pharmacological or
psychological therapies for depression. Here we explored the feasibility of a new brain self …

Two studies have examined whether there exists a relationship between resting frontal
alpha asymmetry and the Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Scales (CS Carver & TL …

The present research developed and tested a new individual‐difference measure of the
need for affect, which is the motivation to approach or avoid emotion‐inducing situations …

Behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation levels have been theorized to relate to a
broad range of psychopathologies. To date, however, studies have focused on a single …

Theorists have proposed that depression is associated with abnormalities in the behavioral
activation (BAS) and behavioral inhibition (BIS) systems. In particular, depressed individuals …