Dispositional negativity—the propensity to experience and express more frequent, intense,
or enduring negative affect—is a fundamental dimension of childhood temperament and …

When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge
early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the underlying mechanisms …

When extreme, anxiety can become debilitating. Anxiety disorders, which often first emerge
early in development, are common and challenging to treat, yet the neurocognitive …

The brain contains both generalized and stimulus-type-specific representations of aversive
events, but models of how these are integrated and related to subjective experience are …

Negative emotional stimuli are particularly salient events that receive privileged access to
neurocognitive resources. At the neural level, the processing of negative stimuli relies on a …

The co-occurrence of internalizing and externalizing disorders suggests that they may have
common underlying vulnerability factors. Research has shown that negative affect is …

There is increasing recognition of temperamental influences on risk for psychopathology.
Whereas the link between the broad temperament construct of negative affectivity (NA) and …

We examine relations among neuroticism/negative emotionality (N/NE),
extraversion/positive emotionality (E/PE), and the mood and anxiety disorders. We present …

Theories of temperament suggest that individual differences in affective reactivity (eg,
negative affectivity) may confer risk for internalizing psychopathology in youth and that self …

Vulnerability models of depression posit that individual differences in trait-like vulnerabilities
emerge early in life and increase risk for the later development of depression. In this review …