Anger and the behavioral approach system

By Eddie Harmon-Jones. 2003

439 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Philip J. Corr
2. Peter Kuppens
3. C. Carver
4. Dirk Smits
5. Colin G. DeYoung
6. N. McNaughton
7. Olivier Herrbach
8. P. De Boeck

In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Dirk Smits
2. Philip J. Corr
3. Olivier Herrbach
4. Peter Kuppens
5. P. De Boeck
6. N. Ambady
7. N. McNaughton
8. Eddie Harmon-Jones

In Social Psychology

1. Eddie Harmon-Jones
2. Philip J. Corr
3. Peter Kuppens
4. Tom F. Price
5. Cindy Harmon-Jones
6. C. Carver
7. Dirk Smits
8. Olivier Herrbach

Citations in the corpus

• What is Approach Motivation? (2013, methodology): “Trait behavioral activation sensitivity (BAS), measured with the approach motivation scale of Carver and White (1994), correlates directly with trait (E. Harmon-Jones, 2003) and state anger (Carver, 2004), despite the lack of semantic overlap between the BAS and anger scales.”
• Motivation and Personality: A Neuropsychological Perspective (2013, background): “The potential importance of anger and reactive aggression as indicators of FFFS sensitivity raises another complication, which is that anger and aggression are approach-oriented, even when they serve a defensive avoidance function (Carver & Harmon-Jones, 2009; Harmon-Jones, 2003).”
• Happiness, inspiration and the fully functioning person: Separating hedonic and eudaimonic well-being in the workplace (2012, background): “The explanation is that certain negative emotions like anger and positive-activated emotions like interest and inspiration all are associated with approach behaviour (see also Harmon-Jones, 2003).”
• The relations between anger, coping with anger, and aggression, and the BIS/BAS system (2005, methodology): “Keywords: Behavioral inhibition system; Behavioral approach system; Trait anger; Coping with anger; Aggression 0191-8869/$ - see front matter 2005 Elsevier Ltd.”
• Temperament theory and the study of cognition-emotion interactions across development (2007, background): “, happiness, excitement), when an individual is highly motivated towards a goal and that goal is blocked, negative emotions, particularly anger and frustration, are elicited (Carver, 2004; Harmon-Jones, 2003; Harmon-Jones & Allen, 1998).”
• The role of asymmetric frontal cortical activity in emotion-related phenomena: a review and update. (2010, background): “Several studies have found that trait BAS, as assessed by Carver and White’s (1994) scale, is positively related to trait anger at the simple correlation level (Harmon-Jones, 2003; Smits & Kuppens, 2005).”
• Biometric Measures for Interactive Advertising Research (2011, background): “1Some negative emotional states may evoke approach tendencies, such as anger (Harmon-Jones 2003), yet because mainstream marketing communication consists mostly of positive stimuli, it is unlikely that it would attempt to put consumers in an angry mode.”
• Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality Questionnaires: Structural survey with recommendations (2016, background): “The evidence seems clear enough: variations in fight (in its defensive and instrumental, but not specifically psychopathically predatory, forms) covary with variations in the BAS (the details of this are discussed elsewhere: Corr, 2013; Corr & Cooper, 2015; see also Carver & Harmon-Jones, 2009; Harm”
• Interactional appraisal models for the anger appraisals of threatened self-esteem, other-blame, and frustration (2007, background): “In addition, recent research show that BIS is related to the experience of anger (Harmon-Jones, 2003; Smits & Kuppens, 2005).”
• Anger is an approach-related affect: evidence and implications. (2009, background): “Smits and Kuppens (2005) also found that both BIS and BAS were associated with trait anger, and that the relationship of BAS but not BIS remained when a control for neuroticism was included, as was true for Harmon-Jones (2003).”
• Emotional Awareness: On the Importance of Including Emotional Aspects in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) (2013, neutral): “Most theorists claim that BIS is involved in the detection of threats and the activation of negative emotions, especially the feeling of anxiety, while BAS is responsible for exploration and the activation of positive emotions (Gray and McNaughton, 2000; Harmon-Jones, 2003).”
• Narcissists are approach-oriented toward their money and their friends (2009, background): “Likewise, from a behavioral perspective, narcissists engage in elevated rates of aggression (Bushman & Baumeister, 1998; Reidy, Zeichner, Foster, & Martinez, 2008), and aggression is associated with high approach motivation and low avoidance motivation (Harmon-Jones, 2003).”
• Approach–Avoidance Motivation and Emotion: Convergence and Divergence (2013, background): “Anger appears to challenge this isomorphism, as anger is often linked to approach motivation but is accompanied by negative feelings (Carver, 2004; Harmon-Jones, 2003; Harmon-Jones et al., 2013).”