More Than Evaluation: Lateralization of the Neural Substrates Supporting Approach and Avoidance Motivational Systems

摘要

Rutherford and Lindell (2011) review the theoretical and empirical research conceptualizing emotion and emotional processing within an approachavoidance framework. This is accompanied by an extensive discussion of the cerebral lateralization of approach-avoidance. Berntson, Norman, and Cacioppo (2011) extend this discussion by presenting a bivariate evaluative model of emotion which adopts a valence-based (positive, negative) dictum. Here we discuss this latter model in the context of an approachavoidance perspective.