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Personality Neuroscience: Why It Is of Importance to Consider Primary Emotional Systems!

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Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales; Individual differences; Personality; Primary emotional systems

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Primary emotional systems represent tools for survival and are anchored in phylogenetically old areas of the mammalian brain. Individual differences in primary emotional systems could represent the evolutionary oldest part of human personality.

Introduction

The study of the biological basis of personality has a long tradition in psychology. With the development of modern molecular genetics and powerful brain imaging techniques, it became possible to obtain deeper insights into the biological foundations of individual differences in human nature. The present entry briefly summarizes several landmark findings of the last years. Beyond this summary, we argue why primary emotional systems are of tremendous importance to be included in biologically oriented personality research. Given the already vast existing knowledge about diverse molecules and brain structures...

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The position of Christian Montag is funded by a Heisenberg grant awarded to him by the German Research Foundation (DFG, MO2363/3-1).

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    Christian Montag

  2. Key Laboratory for NeuroInformation/Center for Information in Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

    Christian Montag

  3. Department of Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, College of Veterinary Medicine, Washington State University, WA, USA

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Montag, C., Panksepp, J. (2020). Personality Neuroscience: Why It Is of Importance to Consider Primary Emotional Systems!. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_1338

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