While both psychopaths and sexual sadists engage in acts of predatory violence, little
empirical work has examined the relationship between the two disorders. This paper …

Memories relating to a painful, negative event are adaptive and can be stored for a lifetime
to support preemptive avoidance, escape, or attack behavior. However, under unfavorable …

This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological
research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological …

Beauty has received sparse attention from emotion theorists, some of whom have argued
that aesthetic pleasure is cognitive in nature and too “disinterested” to be emotional. This …

Although research on the reasons for engaging in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has
increased dramatically in the last few years, there are still many aspects of this pernicious …

Altered reward processing is thought to characterize binge‐type eating disorders, but the
exact nature of these alterations is unclear. A more fine‐grained understanding of whether …

The major advantages of measuring endocrine and peripheral neurophysiological
responses for social psychologists have been articulated in detail elsewhere (eg …

This study was designed to examine the effect of emotion on the nociceptive flexion reflex
and pain ratings. To do so, 28 participants viewed pictures varying in emotional valence …

Context Although drug cues reliably activate the brain's reward system, studies rarely
examine how the processing of drug stimuli compares with natural reinforcers or relates to …

Two core motivational systems have been conceptualized as underlying emotion and
behavior. The approach system drives the organism toward stimuli or events in the …