In this review, we describe multiple pathways that may lead to risk-taking in adolescence. We review behavioral and neuroimaging studies showing heightened tendencies associated neural reward activity mid late adolescence, but evidence points risk taking as highly context sample dependent. Here, suggest individual differences, specifically drive, be a differential susceptibility factor shows se...

Learning financial rating tendencies requires knowledge of the ratios and values that indicate a firm’s situation as well as a deep understanding of the relationships between them and the main factors that can modify these values. In this work, the Qualitative Trees provided by the algorithm QUIN are used to model financial rating and to learn its tendencies. Some examples are given to show the...

The article presents the results of testing hypothesis about presence destructive tendencies in socio-psychological status mothers families raising children with visual impairments, as well disharmonious nature their psychological culture. Mothers from 48 took part experiment. Negative trends such as: excessive importance mother’s role family circle; estrangement spouse; intimacy child to detri...

Models of human behavior in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) have played a pivotal role in accounting for behavioral differences during decision-making. One critical difference between models that have been used to account for behavior in the IGT is the inclusion or exclusion of the assumption that participants tend to persevere, or stay with the same option over consecutive trials. Models that all...

Abstract Adverse early interactions with parents deeply affect the socio-emotional development of an individual, leading to feelings inferiority and negatively influencing self-conscious emotions, such as shame. Moreover, dysfunctional parenting was found in histories people suffering from substance behavioral addictions. In this context, there is currently no agreement literature regarding rol...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of automatic approach/avoidance tendencies for food in Anorexia Nervosa (AN). We used a longitudinal approach and tested whether a reduction in eating disorder symptoms is associated with enhanced approach tendencies towards food and whether approach tendencies towards food at baseline are predictive for treatment outcome after ...

PREVIOUS RESEARCH REVEALED AN AUTOMATIC BEHAVIORAL BIAS IN HIGH SOCIALLY ANXIOUS INDIVIDUALS (HSAS): although their explicit evaluations of smiling faces are positive, they show automatic avoidance of these faces. This is reflected by faster pushing than pulling of smiling faces in an Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT; Heuer et al., 2007). The current study addressed the causal role of this avoidanc...

OBJECTIVE This article examines possible sources of heightened psychophysiological reactivity in relation to risk for hypertension and coronary artery disease. The idea that exaggerated reactions to psychological stress may predict greater risk for future disease has some support in the psychosomatic and behavioral medicine literature. However, the pathways by which exaggerated reactivity could...