Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST) has emerged as a pivotal framework for understanding the neural mechanisms underlying personality. The theory posits that individual differences in sensitivity ...

You wake up in the morning, ready to enjoy the day and get things done; you feel able to move mountains. Then something goes wrong. For unknown reasons, your confidence turns into fatigue. You get ...

The concept of behavioural control is intimately tied to the valuation of resources and choices. For example, a creature that moves left instead of right may forgoe the food and other resources that ...

A recently published study suggests that ‘likes’ on Instagram work in similar ways to the delivery of food to a hungry rat pressing a lever in a Skinner Box 1. The faster that ‘likes’ are received, ...