Research on avoidance conditioning began in the late 1930s as a way to use laboratory
experiments to better understand uncontrollable fear and anxiety. Avoidance was initially …

This article reviews how a temperament approach emphasizing biological and
developmental processes can integrate constructs from subdisciplines of psychology to …

The past ten years have seen an explosion of useful research surrounding human
motivation and emotion; new insights allow researchers to answer the perennial questions …

What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence
children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and …

What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? do we control our
emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can traumatic …

Recent years have witnessed major advances in our understanding of temperament in
childhood. Early views on temperament as unchanging and stable have been replaced by …

The editors of this... volume have selected 24 leading emotion theorists and asked them to
address 12 fundamental questions about the subject of emotion.... Each chapter addresses …

The contribution of the amygdala and hippocampus to the acquisition of conditioned fear
responses to a cue (a tone paired with footshock) and to context (background stimuli …

Emotions are action dispositions, states of vigilant readiness that vary widely in reported
affect, physiology, and behavior. They are driven, however, by only 2 opponent motivational …

In the human psychology laboratory, attention is commonly treated as a rational, conscious,
cognitive activity. The focus of attention is often defined by instructions, or alternatively, by …