Dopamine, appetitive reinforcement, and the neuropsychology of human learning: An individual differences approach
Year: 2001
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Personality research is usually perceived as lying towards the “softer” end of \npsychological inquiry, seemingly far from the “harder” neural mechanisms, processes, and \nneurological lesions which are the daily stuff of neuropsychology. As biologically-oriented \npersonality psychologists, however, we have always tried to couch our proposals in brain- \nbehavioural terms and have even offered suggestions as to the “neuropsychology” of \npersonality traits such as anxiety and their related clinical conditions (e.g., Gray, 1982). \nFurthermore, several other personality theorists have also drawn from the rich materials of \nbehavioural neuroscience (e.g., Cloninger, Svracik, & Przybeck, 1993; Depue & Collins, \n1999; Zuckerman, 1991). In this chapter we continue to apply our neuropsychological \napproach to personality: specifically focusing on the effects of personality traits on learning \ntasks.
Authors: Alan D. Pickering, JA Gray
Language: English
Subfield: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2122421534