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Appetitive motivation predicts the neural response to facial signals of aggression.
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The "behavioral approach system" (BAS) (Gray, 1990) has been primarily associated with reward processing and positive affect. However, additional research has demonstrated that the BAS plays a role in aggressive behavior, heightened experience of anger, and increased attention to facial signals of aggression. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show that variation in the BAS trait in healthy participants predicts activation in neural regions implicated in aggression when participants view facial signals of aggression in others. Increased BAS drive (appetitive motivation) was associated with increased amygdala activation and decreased ventral anterior cingulate and ventral striatal activation to facial signals of aggression, relative to sad and neutral expressions. In contrast, increased behavioral inhibition was associated with increased activation in the dorsal anterior cingulate, a region involved in the perception of fear and threat. Our results provide the first demonstration that appetitive motivation constitutes a significant factor governing the function of neural regions implicated in aggression, and have implications for understanding clinical disorders of aggression.
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“In people, also, strength of mesolimbic incentive salience has also been linked to personality traits of impulsiveness and sensation-seeking (e.g., Gray’s BAS [behavioral activation system]) (Gray et al., 1999; Beaver et al., 2008; Hickey and Peelen, 2015).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beaver, J. D., Lawrence, A. D., Passamonti, L., & Calder, A. J.
- Affiliations
- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (GB)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2008-03-12
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 2719-2725
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6670667
- OpenAlex
- W2064855375
- Cited by
- 152
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 47 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 5.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- Medical Research Council
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Keywords
- appetitive motivation, behavioral approach system, aggression, amygdala, ventral anterior cingulate cortex, ventral striatum, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, behavioral inhibition, threat perception, anger
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aggression, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Motivation, Nerve Net, Photic Stimulation, Reward
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