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Personality correlates of the dopaminergic facilitation of incentive motivation: Impulsive sensation seeking rather than extraversion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Alan D. Pickering
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, London SW17 0RE, United [email protected]

Abstract

Depue & Collins associate dopaminergically mediated incentive motivational processes with extraversion. In this commentary I consider dopaminergic indices from neuroimaging investigations which correlate more closely with impulsive sensation seeking personality traits than with extraversion. Measures of relevant behavioural processes also appear to correlate with personality measures other than extraversion.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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