Individual Differences: From Neurobiological Bases to New Insight on Approach and Avoidance Behavior

• Main Author: Daniela Laricchiuta (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Fear System; stress; reinforcement sensitivity theory; Anxiety; motivational disorders; personality traits; rewarding and aversive stimuli; affective and emotional neuroscience; dopaminergic and endocannabinoid systems; resilience
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The superordinate division of emotions is distributed along a bipolar dimension of affective valence, from approaching rewarding situations to avoiding punitive situations. Avoiding and approaching behaviors determine the disposition to the primary emotions of fear and attachment and the behavioral...