Background The personality traits of positive and negative urgency refer to the tendencies to
act rashly when experiencing unusually positive or negative emotions, respectively …

Impulsiveness has been studied as an aspect of personality and psychopathology for
generations. There are longstanding disagreements about how to define it and whether it …

Introduction This study explored the hypothesis that impulsive reactions to heightened
emotion may reflect a transdiagnostic vulnerability to both externalizing and internalizing …

Positive urgency, the tendency to respond impulsively to positive affective states, has been
linked to many psychopathologies, but little is known about mechanisms underpinning this …

Prior research suggests that a traitlike tendency to experience impulsivity during states of
high emotion is robustly associated with many forms of psychopathology. Several studies tie …

Positive emotion-based impulsivity (ie, positive urgency) is an important impulsivity-related
trait associated with a wide range of problematic behaviors and clinical disorders, including …

Harmful alcohol use is a global concern, which has made research in this area a prime
public health interest. Previous research has identified alcohol-related attentional biases …

Problematic alcohol use remains a significant public health concern among college student
populations. Individual differences in the personality traits of neuroticism and impulsivity …