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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
,2009, 'Encyclopedia of Communication Theory', , http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412959384
,2008, 'Dysregulation of the behavioral approach system (BAS) in bipolar spectrum disorders: Review of theory and evidence', Clinical Psychology Review, 28, pp. 1188 - 1205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2008.04.004
,2008, 'Effect of trait and state approach motivation on aggressive inclinations', Journal of Research in Personality, 42, pp. 1381 - 1385, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2008.05.001
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