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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 118, Issue 5, Pages 897-904Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.118.5.897
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Neuroticism and extraversion are personality traits associated with negative and positive mood states, respectively, confounding trait and state factors that may affect brain responses to emotional stimuli. The authors dissociated these factors using fMRI and the emotional Stroop attention task: Anterior cingulate (AC) response to positive stimuli varied as a function of personality trait, but not mood state, whereas AC response to negative stimuli varied as a function of mood state, but not personality trait. Negative mood, but not personality trait, also increased the functional connectivity between AC and other regions. Variance in AC activation can thus be ascribed to all intersubject variable (extraversion) when responding to positive stimuli and an intrasubject variable (mood) when responding to negative Stimuli. The former may explain stable differences between extraverts and introverts. The latter may provide an adaptive mechanism to expand an individual's dynamic range in response to potentially dangerous or threatening stimuli.
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