Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory, Research, Applications, and Future

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 101-131

  Smillie, Luke D ^a   Loxton, Natalie J ^b   Avery, Rachel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal models bedrock of RST RST; Approach avoidance process theory of personality by Jeffrey Alan Gray, known as reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST); Evidence linking personality traits with RST system processes; Foundations of approach and avoidance motivation Jeffrey Gray's model for personality building; Matthews and Gilliland's suggestion RST extended upward, incorporating cognitive processes; Psychology, study of affect, behavior, cognition and desire personality psychology of long term pattern of affect, behavior, cognition and desire; Reinforcement sensitivity theory, research, applications and future; RST and personality, and systems to traits RST, theory applied in study of personality; RST and psychopathology clinical psychologists, and RST as a useful lens for viewing psychopathologies; RST as a guiding framework for a neuroscience of achievement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985869799     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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