The author explores the viability of a comparative approach to personality research. A
review of the diverse animal-personality literature suggests that (a) most research uses trait …

Patient nonadherence with therapy is a major barrier to rehabilitation. Recovery is often
limited and requires prolonged, intensive rehabilitation that is time-consuming, expensive …

Social media plays a significant role during pandemics such as COVID-19, as it enables
people to share news as well as personal experiences and viewpoints with one another in …

" Character" has become a front-and-center topic in contemporary discourse, but this term
does not have a fixed meaning. Character may be simply defined by what someone does …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

Dopamine (DA) acts as a key neurotransmitter in the brain. Numerous studies have shown
its regulatory role for motor and limbic functions. However, in the early stages of Parkinson's …

In an effort to expand research on curiosity, we elaborate on a theoretical model that informs
research on the design of a new measure and the nomological network of curiosity. Curiosity …

This paper proposes a new theoretical model of curiosity that incorporates the neuroscience
of “wanting” and “liking”, which are two systems hypothesised to underlie motivation and …

Measuring anxiety-like behaviour in mice has been mostly undertaken using a few classical
animal models of anxiety such as the elevated plus-maze, the light/dark choice or the open …

Dr. Jacqueline N. Crawley, author of the First and Second Editions of What's Wrong with My
Mouse? Behavioral Phenotyping of Transgenic and Knockout Mice, continues to field calls …