Eye contact reveals a relationship between Neuroticism and anterior EEG asymmetry

Uusberg, Helen; Allik, Jüri; Hietanen, Jari K.

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.008

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“…Gray and McNaughton's theory posits that those high in r‐BIS are also high in neuroticism. Past work has linked neuroticism to right frontal activity, further suggesting that r‐BIS and not FFFS relates to greater right frontal activity (Schmidtke & Heller, ; Uusberg, Allik, & Hietanen, ).…”

Section: Disentangling R‐bis and Fffs In Right Frontal Activitymentioning

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Regulatory behavior and frontal activity: Considering the role of revised‐BIS in relative right frontal asymmetry

2017

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Essential to human behavior are three core personality systems: approach, avoidance, and a regulatory system governing the two motivational systems. Decades of research has linked approach motivation with greater relative left frontal-cortical asymmetry. Other research has linked avoidance motivation with greater relative right frontalcortical asymmetry. However, past work linking withdrawal motivation with greater relative right frontal asymmetry has been mixed. The current article reviews evidence suggesting that activation of the regulatory system (revised Behavioral Inhibition System [r-BIS]) may be more strongly related to greater relative right frontal asymmetry than withdrawal motivation. Specifically, research suggests that greater activation of the r-BIS is associated with greater relative right frontal activity, and reduced r-BIS activation is associated with reduced right frontal activity (greater relative left frontal activity). We review evidence examining trait and state frontal activity using EEG, source localization, lesion studies, neuronal stimulation, and fMRI supporting the idea that r-BIS may be the core personality system related to greater relative right frontal activity. In addition, the current review seeks to disentangle avoidance motivation and r-BIS as substrates of relative right frontal asymmetry.

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Section: Disentangling R‐bis and Fffs In Right Frontal Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Regulatory behavior and frontal activity: Considering the role of revised‐BIS in relative right frontal asymmetry

2017

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“…Uusberg et al (2015) measured EEG asymmetry in response to a live individual’s gaze in participants with varying degrees of neuroticism according to the Five Factor Model. The results showed that, in participants scoring low on neuroticism, direct gaze elicited greater left-sided frontal EEG asymmetry as compared to averted gaze, as observed in the two studies mentioned above.…”

Section: Asymmetric Frontal Cortical Activitymentioning

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Affective Eye Contact: An Integrative Review

2018

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In recent years, many studies have shown that perceiving other individuals’ direct gaze has robust effects on various attentional and cognitive processes. However, considerably less attention has been devoted to investigating the affective effects triggered by eye contact. This article reviews research concerning the effects of others’ gaze direction on observers’ affective responses. The review focuses on studies in which affective reactions have been investigated in well-controlled laboratory experiments, and in which contextual factors possibly influencing perceivers’ affects have been controlled. Two important themes emerged from this review. First, explicit affective evaluations of seeing another’s direct versus averted gaze have resulted in rather inconsistent findings; some studies report more positive subjective feelings to direct compared to averted gaze, whereas others report the opposite pattern. These contradictory findings may be related, for example, to differences between studies in terms of the capability of direct-gaze stimuli to elicit feelings of self-involvement. Second, studies relying on various implicit measures have reported more consistent results; they indicate that direct gaze increases affective arousal, and more importantly, that eye contact automatically evokes a positively valenced affective reaction. Based on the review, possible psychological mechanisms for the positive affective reactions elicited by eye contact are described.

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“…Examples are social anxiety, greater like-ratings of objects, detached and antagonistic personality traits, melancholia, neuroticism, borderline personality disorder, and specific genetic predispositions (Davidson et al, 2000; Gable and Harmon-Jones, 2008; Harmon-Jones and Gable, 2009; Cole et al, 2012; Papousek et al, 2013, 2018; Wacker et al, 2013; Beeney et al, 2014; Uusberg et al, 2015; Liu et al, 2016). …”

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Goal Orientations and Activation of Approach Versus Avoidance Motivation While Awaiting an Achievement Situation in the Laboratory

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While some students try to give their best in an achievement situation, others show disengagement and just want to get the situation over and done with. The present study investigates the role of students’ tendencies for approach or avoidance motivation while anticipating tasks and the corresponding activation of the approach/avoidance motivational system as indicated by transient changes of EEG alpha asymmetry. Overall, 62 students (50 female; age: M = 23.8, SD = 3.5) completed a goal orientation questionnaire (learning goals, performance-approach, performance-avoidance, and work avoidance). They joined a laboratory experiment where EEG was recorded during resting condition as well as when students were anticipating tasks. Standard multiple regression analysis showed that higher values on performance-avoidance were related to a higher activation of the approach system whereas higher values on work avoidance were related to a higher activation of the avoidance system. Results question present assumptions about avoidance related goal orientations.

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Eye contact reveals a relationship between Neuroticism and anterior EEG asymmetry

Cited by 27 publications

References 59 publications

Regulatory behavior and frontal activity: Considering the role of revised‐BIS in relative right frontal asymmetry

Regulatory behavior and frontal activity: Considering the role of revised‐BIS in relative right frontal asymmetry

Affective Eye Contact: An Integrative Review

Goal Orientations and Activation of Approach Versus Avoidance Motivation While Awaiting an Achievement Situation in the Laboratory

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