Personality and action control: BAS Reward predicts motor control accuracy |
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Affiliation: | 1. North Dakota State University, United States;2. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States;1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650091, PR China;2. Yunnan Key Laboratory for Micro/nano Materials & Technology, Kunming, Yunnan, 650091, PR China;1. Department of clinical neurosciences, CERMAC (Centro di Eccellenza Risonanza Magnetica ad Alto Campo), scientific institute, university Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy;2. Department of immunology, Erasmus university medical centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;3. Department of psychiatry, university of Münster, Münster, Germany;1. Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan;2. Department of Gastroenterology, National Hospital Organization Disaster Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan;3. Department of Neurology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan |
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Abstract: | Theoretically, the processes involved in approach motivation and action control should overlap. In both cases, a person must commit to a goal, identify a goal target, and seek to reduce discrepancies between the self and this goal target on a somewhat continuous basis. These ideas motivated three studies (total N = 253) in which personality differences in the behavioral approach system (BAS) and the behavioral inhibition system (BIS) were assessed as potential predictors of performance in an objective motor control task. People high in BAS Reward had markedly better motor control (i.e., smaller distances from targets) than people low in BAS Reward. This was true across a variety of affective priming conditions. The other components of BAS and BIS, by contrast, were inconsistent predictors. The results support both reward-based and functional perspectives of the BAS in the context of a cybernetic view of how self-regulation by approach operates. |
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Keywords: | Approach Self-regulation BAS Control Motor |
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