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, 2012, 'High Behavioral Approach System (BAS) sensitivity, reward responsiveness, and goal-striving predict first onset of bipolar spectrum disorders: A prospective behavioral high-risk design', Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, pp. 339 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025877
, 2012, 'Nonconscious attention bias to threat is correlated with anterior cingulate cortex gray matter volume: A voxel-based morphometry result and replication.', Neuroimage, 59, pp. 171 - 178, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.040
, 2012, 'Reducing attentional capture of emotion by broadening attention: Increased global attention reduces early electrophysiological responses to negative stimuli', Biological Psychology, 90, pp. 150 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.02.006
, 2012, 'Right frontal cortical asymmetry predicts empathic reactions: Support for a link between withdrawal motivation and empathy', Psychophysiology, 49, pp. 1145 - 1153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01395.x
, 2012, 'The emotive neuroscience of embodiment', Motivation and Emotion, 36, pp. 27 - 37
, 2012, 'The Influence of Affective States on Cognitive Broadening/Narrowing: Considering the Importance of Motivational Intensity', Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6, pp. 314 - 327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00432.x
, 2012, 'The influence of affective states varying in motivational intensity on cognitive scope', Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, (2012), pp. Art. No. 73 - Art. No. 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2012.00073
, 2012, 'The orienting of spatial attention to backward masked fearful faces is associated with variation in the serotonin transporter gene.', Emotion, 12, pp. 203 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025170
, 2012, 'Toward an understanding of the emotion-modulated startle eyeblink reflex: The case of anger', Psychophysiology, 49, pp. 1677 - 1690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2012.01469.x
, 2012, 'Toward an understanding of the emotion-modulated startle eyeblink reflex: the case of anger.', Psychophysiology, 49, pp. 1509 - 1522
, 2012, 'Understanding all inconsistency compensation as a palliative response to violated expectations', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16, pp. 285 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.04.002
, 2012, 'When anger leads to aggression: Induction of relative left frontal cortical activity with transcranial direct current stimulation increases the anger-aggression relationship.', Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7, pp. 342 - 347, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsr012
, 2011, 'Attentional Consequences of Pregoal and Postgoal Positive Affects', Emotion, 11, pp. 1358 - 1367, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0025611
, 2011, 'Attitudes toward emotions', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101, pp. 1332 - 1350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024951
, 2011, 'Ventral striatal and medial prefrontal BOLD activation is correlated with reward-related electrocortical activity: A combined ERP and fMRI study', Neuroimage, 57, pp. 1608 - 1616, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.037
, 2011, 'Asymmetric frontal cortical activity and negative affective responses to ostracism', Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, pp. 277 - 285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsq027
, 2011, 'Approach motivational body postures lean toward left frontal brain activity', Psychophysiology, 48, pp. 718 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2010.01127.x
, 2011, 'Attentional states influence early neural responses associated with motivational processes: Local vs. global attentional scope and N1 amplitude to appetitive stimuli', Biological Psychology, 87, pp. 303 - 305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.02.007
, 2011, 'Leaning embodies desire: Evidence that leaning forward increases relative left frontal cortical activation to appetitive stimuli', Biological Psychology, 87, pp. 311 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.03.009
, 2011, 'Toward an Understanding of the Influence of Affective States on Attentional Tuning: Comment on Friedman and Förster (2010)', Psychological Bulletin, 137, pp. 508 - 512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0022744
, 2011, 'The effect of commitment on relative left frontal cortical activity: Tests of the action-based model of dissonance', Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, pp. 395 - 408, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210397059
, 2011, 'Trait Emotions and Affective Modulation of the Startle Eyeblink: On the Unique Relationship of Trait Anger', Emotion, 11, pp. 47 - 51, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0021238
, 2011, 'Cognitive Vulnerability and Frontal Brain Asymmetry: Common Predictors of First Prospective Depressive Episode', Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, pp. 497 - 503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0022940
, 2011, 'Dissonance and distress', Religion Brain and Behavior, 1, pp. 225 - 227, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2011.647853
, 2011, 'The Expression of Determination: Similarities Between Anger and Approach-Related Positive Affect', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, pp. 172 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0020966
, 2011, 'Trait approach motivation relates to dissonance reduction', Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2, pp. 21 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550610379425
, 2010, 'The Effect of Embodied Emotive States on Cognitive Categorization', Emotion, 10, pp. 934 - 938, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019809
, 2010, 'The effect of low versus high approach-motivated positive affect on memory for peripherally versus centrally presented information', Emotion, 10, pp. 599 - 603, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0018426
, 2010, 'Exercising Self-Control Increases Approach Motivation', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 99, pp. 162 - 173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019797
, 2010, 'The role of asymmetric frontal cortical activity in emotion-related phenomena: A review and update', Biological Psychology, 84, pp. 451 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.08.010
, 2010, 'Late Positive Potential to Appetitive Stimuli and Local Attentional Bias', Emotion, 10, pp. 441 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0018425
, 2010, 'The blues broaden, but the nasty narrows: Attentional consequences of negative affects low and high in motivational intensity', Psychological Science, 21, pp. 211 - 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797609359622
, 2010, 'On the relationship of trait PANAS positive activation and trait anger: Evidence of a suppressor relationship', Journal of Research in Personality, 44, pp. 120 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2009.09.001
, 2010, 'Socially explosive minds: The triple imbalance hypothesis of reactive aggression', Journal of Personality, 78, pp. 67 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00609.x
, 2010, 'The motivational dimensional model of affect: Implications for breadth of attention, memory, and cognitive categorisation', Cognition and Emotion, 24, pp. 322 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699930903378305
, 2010, 'Increased rates of events that activate or deactivate the behavioral approach system, but not events related to goal attainment, in bipolar spectrum disorders', Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119, pp. 610 - 615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019533
, 2009, 'Psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder: Perspective from the behavioral approach system (BAS) dysregulation theory', Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, 16, pp. 449 - 469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2850.2009.01184.x
, 2009, 'Methods in Social Neuroscience, edited by Eddie Harmon-Jones and Jennifer Beer', The Journal of Social Psychology, 149, pp. 734 - 736, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224540903347321
, 2009, 'Supine body position reduces neural response to anger evocation: Short report', Psychological Science, 20, pp. 1209 - 1210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02416.x
, 2009, 'Bipolar Spectrum-Substance Use Co-Occurrence: Behavioral Approach System (BAS) Sensitivity and Impulsiveness as Shared Personality Vulnerabilities', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, pp. 549 - 565, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016061
, 2009, 'Postauricular reflex responses to pictures varying in valence and arousal', Psychophysiology, 46, pp. 487 - 490, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00794.x
, 2009, 'Neural activity underlying the effect of approach-motivated positive affect on narrowed attention: Research report', Psychological Science, 20, pp. 406 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02302.x
, 2009, 'PANAS Positive Activation Is Associated With Anger', Emotion, 9, pp. 183 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014959
, 2009, 'Chapter 3 Action-Based Model of Dissonance. A Review, Integration, and Expansion of Conceptions of Cognitive Conflict', Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 41, pp. 119 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(08)00403-6
, 2009, 'Anger and Approach: Reply to Watson (2009) and to Tomarken and Zald (2009)', Psychological Bulletin, 135, pp. 215 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0015026
, 2009, 'Anger Is an Approach-Related Affect: Evidence and Implications', Psychological Bulletin, 135, pp. 183 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013965
, 2009, 'Circadian and seasonal variability of resting frontal EEG asymmetry', Biological Psychology, 80, pp. 315 - 320, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.11.002
, 2009, 'Symbolic self-completion in academia: Evidence from department web pages and email signature files', European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, pp. 311 - 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.541
, 2009, 'Jealousy: Novel Methods and Neural Correlates', Emotion, 9, pp. 113 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014117
, 2009, 'Behavioral Approach System (BAS)-Relevant Cognitive Styles and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders: Concurrent and Prospective Associations', Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 118, pp. 459 - 471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016604