Journal
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 67, Issue 1-2, Pages 51-76Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2004.03.003
Keywords
frontal EEG asymmetry; emotion; anger; cognitive dissonance
Funding
- NIMH NIH HHS [MH60747-01, MH52662] Funding Source: Medline
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Research has suggested that approach-related positive emotions are associated with greater left frontal brain activity and that withdrawal-related negative emotions are associated with greater right frontal brain activity. Different explanations have been proposed. One posits that frontal asymmetry is due to emotional valence (positivity/negativity), one posits that frontal asymmetry is due to motivational direction (approach/withdrawal), and one posits that frontal asymmetry is due to a combination of emotional valence and motivational direction (positive-approach/negative-withdrawal). Because research had confounded emotional valence and motivational direction, the theoretical explanation was muddled. Solely supporting the motivational direction model, recent research has revealed that anger and cognitive dissonance, emotions with negative valence and approach motivational tendencies, are related to relatively greater left frontal activity. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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