Sensation seeking and the aversive motivational system

Emotion

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 396-407

  Lissek, Shmuel ^a   Baas, Johanna M P ^b   Pine, Daniel S ^a   Orme, Kaebah ^a   Dvir, Sharone ^a   Rosenberger, Emily ^a   Grillon, Christian ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Fear; Psychophysiology; Sensation seeking; Startle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK; SENSATION SEEKING; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREAT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 29444454192     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.5.4.396     Document Type: Article

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