Publication Date

1-11-2008

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, Psychology

Keywords

Extraversion, Emotional response, Neural response

Abstract

Extraversion has been shown to positively correlate with activation within the ventral striatum, amygdala and other dopaminergically innervated, reward-sensitive regions. These regions are implicated in emotional responding, in a manner sensitive to attentional focus. However, no study has investigated the interaction among extraversion, emotion and attention. We used fMRI and dynamic, evocative film clips to elicit amusement and sadness in a sample of 28 women. Participants were instructed either to respond naturally (n = 14) or to attend to and continuously rate their emotions (n = 14) while watching the films. Contrary to expectations, striatal response was negatively associated with extraversion during amusement, regardless of attention. A negative association was also observed during sad films, but only when attending to emotion. These findings suggest that attentional focus does not influence the relationship between extraversion and neural response to positive (amusing) stimuli but does impact the response to negative (sad) stimuli.

Copyright Date

1-11-2008

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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The Authors

Provenance

Received from author

File Format

application/pdf

Language

English (eng)

Extent

9 pgs

File Size

361 KB

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Publication Title

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volume

3

Issue

1

First Page

71

Last Page

79

ISSN

1749-5016

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