We review conceptual arguments and research on the role of asymmetric frontal cortical
activity in emotional and motivational processes. The current article organizes and reviews …

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 …

Several discrete emotions have broad theoretical and empirical importance, as shown by
converging evidence from diverse areas of psychology, including facial displays …

Since Brehm first proposed reactance theory in 1966, many studies have explored the
remarkable psychological phenomenon of reactance, which Miron and Brehm reviewed in …

In this research, we showed that solitude generally has a deactivation effect on people's
affective experiences, decreasing both positive and negative high-arousal affects. In Study …

We review research on the structure and functions of emotions that has benefitted from a
serious consideration of both discrete and dimensional perspectives on emotion. To …

Among its many roles in body and brain, oxytocin influences social behavior. Understanding
the precise nature of this influence is crucial, both within the broader theoretical context of …

We discuss some research that has examined approach motivational urges and how this
research clarifies the definition of approach motivation. Our research and that of others have …

The Covid‐19 pandemic has significantly changed the lives of most people. It has been
described as the most severe global health disaster of modern times by the United Nations …

We attempt to determine the discriminability and organization of neural activation
corresponding to the experience of specific emotions. Method actors were asked to self …