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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory"”.
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Reinforcement sensitivity theory, personality, and senior executive performance
… explores the extent to which Jeffrey Gray's reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality can predict and explain the job performance of top-level executive leaders. In this study, 189 senior executives underwent a battery of psychometric, biographical and performance measures. The …
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Identifying the Behavioural and Psychophysiological Indicators of Mentally Tough Athletes
… re-investigated the complex link between revised reinforcement sensitivity theory (rRST) and mentally tough behaviour and tested whether rRST could be extended to predict mentally tough athletes psychophysiological responses. The objectives of this thesis were to address two issues in Hardy, Bell, …
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Behavioral Inhibition and Avoidance: Identifying Vulnerabilities to Avoidant Behavior
… and anxious pathology across the lifespan. Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) describes a temperamental vulnerability that influences approach (Behavioral Approach System; BAS) and avoidance (Behavioral Inhibition System; BIS) behaviors. The purpose of the study was to identify, using …
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Physical Activity Engagement Linked Linked to Frontal Asymmetry During Approach-Avoidance Decision Making
… are linked to motivational systems proposed by Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) thought to govern behavioral approach, fight-flight-freeze, and motivational control responses. Research to date has primarily focused on the link between these patterns of frontal asymmetry at rest and …
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The Role of Impulsivity and Reward Reactivity in Gray's Behavioral Activation System: Self-Reported Behavior and Autonomic Response to Reward
… a central role in approach motivation and reward sensitivity (Gray, 1970). Self-report measures of BAS (e.g., Carver & White, 1994) have been used to index BAS activity, with higher scores interpreted as indicating greater BAS activity (e.g., Hundt et al., 2008). However, Beauchaine and colleagues …
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Tailoring health message frames to motivational orientation: A scoping review
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01