Most people have experienced loneliness and have been able to overcome it to reconnect
with other people. In the current review, we provide a life-span perspective on one …

While trait positive emotionality and state positive-valence affect have long been the subject
of intense study, the importance of differentiating among several “discrete” positive emotions …

Cybernetics, the study of goal-directed, adaptive systems, is the best framework for an
integrative theory of personality. Cybernetic Big Five Theory attempts to provide a …

To better understand the reward circuitry in human brain, we conducted activation likelihood
estimation (ALE) and parametric voxel-based meta-analyses (PVM) on 142 neuroimaging …

Over the last 10 years advances in the new field of neuromarketing have yielded a host of
findings which defy common stereotypes about consumer behavior. Reason and emotions …

The neuromodulator dopamine is centrally involved in reward, approach behavior,
exploration, and various aspects of cognition. Variations in dopaminergic function appear to …

Rationale Pathological gambling (PG) has recently been considered as a “behavioral” or
nonsubstance addiction. A comparison of the characteristics of PG and substance use …

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) to different sites allows interfering with dysfunctional network
function implicated in major depression. Because a prominent clinical feature of depression …

Genes are major contributors to many psychiatric diseases, but their mechanisms of action
have long seemed elusive. The intermediate phenotype concept represents a strategy for …

'Anticipatory affect'refers to emotional states that people experience while anticipating
significant outcomes. Historically, technical limitations have made it difficult to determine …