Embodying approach motivation: Body posture influences startle eyeblink and event-related potential responses to appetitive stimuli

Biological Psychology

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 211-217

  Price, Tom F ^a   Dieckman, Laurtiz W ^b   Harmon Jones, Eddie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approach Motivation; Embodiment; Emotion; Event Related Potentials; LPP; P100; Posture; Startle eyeblink

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPETITIVE STIMULUS; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATE POSITIVE POTENTIAL; LEANING BODY POSTURE; MALE; MOTIVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECLINING BODY POSTURE; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APPETITE; BLINKING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EROTICA; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSTURE; STARTLE REACTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861213194     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.04.001     Document Type: Article

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