The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality

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Pub. Date: 2008-05-08
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

One of the major neuropsychological models of personality, developed by world-renowned psychologist Professor Jeffrey Gray, is based upon individual differences in reactions to punishing and rewarding stimuli. This biological theory of personality - now widely known as 'Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory' (RST) - has had a major influence on motivation, emotion and psychopathology research. In 2000, RST was substantially revised by Jeffrey Gray, together with Neil McNaughton, and this revised theory proposed three principal motivation/emotion systems: the 'Fight-Flight-Freeze System' (FFFS), the 'Behavioural Approach System' (BAS) and the 'Behavioural Inhibition System' (BIS). This is the first book to summarise the Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of personality and bring together leading researchers in the field. It summarizes all of the pre-2000 RST research findings, explains and elaborates the implications of the 2000 theory for personality psychology and lays out the future research agenda for RST.

Table of Contents

List of abbreviationsp. vii
List of figuresp. ix
List of tablesp. xiii
List of contributorsp. xv
Prefacep. xvii
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST): introductionp. 1
The neuropsychology of fear and anxiety: a foundation for Reinforcement Sensitivity Theoryp. 44
Animal cognition and human personalityp. 95
The behavioural activation system: challenges and opportunitiesp. 120
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory and personalityp. 155
Reinforcement sensitivity scalesp. 188
Performance and conditioning studiesp. 228
Psychophysiological studiesp. 261
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory and mood induction studiesp. 291
Neuro-imaging and geneticsp. 317
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory and psychosomatic medicinep. 345
RST and clinical disorders: anxiety and depressionp. 360
RST and psychopathy: associations between psychopathy and the behavioral activation and inhibition systemsp. 398
Behavioural activation and inhibition in social adjustmentp. 415
Reinforcement sensitivity in the workplace: BIS/BAS in businessp. 431
Formal and computational models of Reinforcement Sensitivity Theoryp. 453
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory: a critique from cognitive sciencep. 482
The contribution of Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory to personality theoryp. 508
General Indexp. 528
Index of namesp. 534
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