Emotions are valenced mental responses and associated physiological reactions that occur
spontaneously and automatically in response to internal or external stimuli, and can …

It has been argued that emotion, pain and cognitive control are functionally segregated in
distinct subdivisions of the cingulate cortex. However, recent observations encourage a …

This book explores the political implications of the human tendency to prioritize negative
information over positive information. Drawing on literatures in political science, psychology …

This review begins with a brief historical overview of attempts in the first half of the 20th
century to discern brain systems that underlie emotion and emotional behavior. These early …

Anatomical, physiological and functional neuroimaging studies suggest that the cerebellum
participates in the organization of higher order function, but there are very few descriptions …

Compassionate mind training (CMT) was developed for people with high shame and self‐
criticism, whose problems tend to be chronic, and who find self‐warmth and self‐acceptance …

Positive affect systematically influences performance on many cognitive tasks. A new
neuropsychological theory is proposed that accounts for many of these effects by assuming …

Neuroimagingstudies with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) have begun to describe the functional neuroanatomy of emotion …

Medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) is among those brain regions having the highest baseline
metabolic activity at rest and one that exhibits decreases from this baseline across a wide …

Although the rational choice approach toward political behavior has been severely criticized,
its adherents claim that competing models have failed to offer a more scientific model of …