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

Extraversion has two central characteristics:(1) interpersonal engagement, which consists of
affiliation (enjoying and valuing close interpersonal bonds, being warm and affectionate) …

This chapter provides a review of extraversion, defined as a dimension of personality
reflecting individual differences in the tendencies to experience and exhibit positive affect …

This article examines how power influences behavior. Elevated power is associated with
increased rewards and freedom and thereby activates approach-related tendencies …

Under heightened emotional states, individuals are more inclined to engage in ill-
considered or rash actions than at other times. The authors present evidence for the …

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 …

Evidence indicates the existence of a superordinate factor of general psychopathology,
which has been termed p. Among the issues raised by this discovery is whether this factor …

Two studies of task-focused dyads tested the approach/inhibition theory of power (P. Keltner,
DH Gruenfeld, & C. Anderson, in press), which posits that having power increases the …

This is the third book I have written on the topic of sensation seeking. The first described the
theoretical origins of the construct, the research on sensory deprivation that grew from the …

primate research suggests that affiliation is a highly complex construct. studies of primate
affiliation demonstrate the need to distinguish between various affiliative behaviors, consider …