Journal
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 72, Issue 2, Pages 198-207Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2005.10.003
Keywords
frontal EEG asymmetry; emotion; personality
Funding
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH066902, R01 MH066902-02] Funding Source: Medline
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Researchers interested in measuring individual differences in affective style via asymmetries in frontal brain activity have depended almost exclusively upon the resting state for EEG recording. This reflects an implicit conceptualization of affective style as a response predisposition that is manifest in frontal EEG asymmetry, with the goal to describe individuals in terms of their general approach or withdrawal tendencies. Alternatively, the response capability conceptualization seeks to identify individual capabilities for approach versus withdrawal responses during emotionally salient events. The capability approach confers a variety of advantages to the study of affective style and personality, and suggests new possibilities for the approach/withdrawal motivational model of frontal EEG asymmetry and emotion. Logical as well as empirical arguments supportive of this conclusion are presented. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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