Depression is characterized by increased levels of negative affect and decreased levels of
positive affect. Prior research shows that individual differences in emotion regulation play an …

Depression is a significant public health problem, but its etiology and pathophysiology
remain poorly understood. Such incomplete understanding likely arises from the fact that …

Anhedonia, or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, is characteristic of depression,
some types of anxiety, as well as substance abuse and schizophrenia. Anhedonia is a …

Anhedonia is a core symptom of major depressive disorder (MDD), the neurobiological
mechanisms of which remain poorly understood. Despite decades of speculation regarding …

Conceptualizations of emotion regulation have led to the identification of cognitive and
behavioral regulatory abnormalities that contribute to the development and maintenance of …

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology today, the approach-avoidance
distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. The distinction …

This chapter explores the psychophysiological study of emotion primarily from a biphasic
motivational view. This view posits that human emotions are organized by neural systems of …

Three alternative views regarding how Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) alters emotional
reactivity have been featured in the literature: positive attenuation (reduced positive …

The present study tested 3 competing views of how depression alters emotional reactivity:
positive attenuation (reduced positive), negative potentiation (increased negative), and …

The widely accepted stress-diathesis hypothesis of depression postulates that genetic
factors contribute to biological vulnerability. Based on this concept, the unpredictable …