Neuropsychological Perspectives on Affective Styles and Their Cognitive Consequences

From mood to food and from food to mood: A psychological perspective on the measurement of food-related emotions in consumer research

“…Mauss and Robinson discuss both electro-encephalography (EEG) with its excellent temporal resolution but poor localisation, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with its specific localisation but lack of temporal resolution. With regard to EEG, they mainly follow Davidson's (Davidson et al, 1990;Davidson, 1999) view that "frontal asymmetry", contrasting alpha power (8-13 Hz band) in the left frontal region with that in the right frontal region is particularly important with respect to emotion. Greater left-sided activation seemed to be related to pleasant emotional experiences and is definitely positively related to approach, whereas right-sided dominance is related to avoidance.…”

“…Greater left-sided activation seemed to be related to pleasant emotional experiences and is definitely positively related to approach, whereas right-sided dominance is related to avoidance. These latter behavioural tendencies seem to be more important effects than emotional valence (Davidson, 1999). This might therefore be too global a measurement to deduct sufficient emotional content from, and especially content that is independent from overall liking.…”

Assessing interactions between cognition, emotion, and motivation in creativity: The construction and validation of EDICOS

“…The emotion literature consistently identifies different affective styles, commonly in terms of the quality and intensity of dispositional mood and emotional reactions to similar incentives and challenges (Davidson, 1999). Two dominant dimensions emerge in studies of affective structure (Russell & Carroll, 1999): Positive affect reflects the extent to which a person feels enthusiastic and pleasurably engaged; while negative affect reflects distress and unpleasurable engagement that subsumes a variety of aversive mood states, including anger, contempt, disgust, guilt, fear, and nervousness.…”

Counting to ten milliseconds: Low-anger, but not high-anger, individuals pause following negative evaluations

“…The approach-motivated nature of high-anger individuals (Carver & Harmon-Jones, 2009) should plausibly inhibit operations of an avoidance motivational system (Corr, 2008). In support of this idea, inverse relations between variables posited to reflect approach versus avoidance motivation have been observed in emotion literatures involving self-report (Tellegen, Watson, & Clark, 1999), behaviour (Cacioppo, Gardner, & Berntson, 1999), neurological activation (Davidson, 1999), and hormonal release (van Honk, Harmon-Jones, Morgan, & Schutter, 2010). From a complementary perspective, low-anger individuals are much less reactive to situational factors, including negative emotional experiences, known to precipitate anger (Watson, 2000) and anger-motivated aggression (Bettencourt et al, 2006).…”