Positive urgency is related to difficulty inhibiting prepotent responses.
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Positive urgency, the tendency to respond impulsively to positive affective states, has been linked to many psychopathologies, but little is known about mechanisms underpinning this form of impulsivity. We examined whether the Positive Urgency Measure (PUM) related to higher scores on performance-based measures of impulsivity and cognitive control that were administered after a positive mood induction. Undergraduates (n = 112) completed the self-report PUM, several positive mood inductions, and behavioral measures of impulsivity and cognitive control. PUM scores were significantly related to poor performance on the antisaccade task, a measure of prepotent response inhibition, but not to other performance measures. Together with existing literature, findings implicate deficits in response inhibition as one mechanism involved in emotion-related impulsivity. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Authors
- Johnson, S. L., Tharp, J. A., Peckham, A. D., Sanchez, A. H., & Carver, C. S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- University of Miami (US)
- Venue
- Emotion
- Published
- 2016-08
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 750-759
- ISSN
- 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1516
- PMC
- PMC4980191
- OpenAlex
- W2322092285
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 57
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- FWCI
- 4.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
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- Emotion (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH089919)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- positive urgency, emotion-related impulsivity, response inhibition, prepotent response inhibition, cognitive control, antisaccade task
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Emotions, Humans, Impulsive Behavior, Inhibition, Psychological, Young Adult, Executive Function
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