Personality psychology has long focused on structural trait models, but it can also offer a rich
understanding of the dynamics, processes, mechanisms, and functioning of individual …

When designing experimental studies with human participants, experimenters must decide
how many trials each participant will complete, as well as how many participants to test …

Theories of individual differences are foundational to psychological and brain sciences, yet
they are traditionally developed and tested using superficial summaries of data (eg, mean …

When extreme, anxiety—a state of distress and arousal prototypically evoked by uncertain
danger—can be debilitating. Uncertain anticipation is a shared feature of situations that elicit …

A primary aim of social, behavioral, and brain sciences is to develop explanations that
answer questions of why or how observed psychological phenomena occur (Hempel & …

Disgust may play an important role in several mental disorders, in part because disgust
seems impervious to corrective information, a feature noted long before it was studied by …

Negative affect is a fundamental dimension of human emotion. When extreme, it contributes
to a variety of adverse outcomes, from physical and mental illness to divorce and premature …

Neural correlates of decision making under risk are being increasingly utilized as
biomarkers of risk for substance abuse and other psychiatric disorders, treatment outcomes …

The affordances task serves as an important tool for the assessment of cognition and
visuomotor functioning, and yet its test–retest reliability has not been established. In the …

This study tested whether brain activity patterns evoked by affective stimuli relate to
individual differences in an indicator of pre-clinical atherosclerosis: carotid artery intima …