5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Jeffrey Gray's neurobiological concept of a brain system that responds to signals of punishment, non-reward, novelty, and innate fear stimuli by inhibiting ongoing behavior and increasing attention.
Canadian psychologist who developed the Cybernetic Big Five Theory — integrating the Big Five personality traits into a unified computational/biological framework.
Jeffrey Gray's neurobiological account of the two major personality dimensions — anxiety (BIS) and impulsivity (BAS) — and their neural substrates.
Jeffrey Gray's neurobiological personality theory positing three systems — BIS (Behavioral Inhibition), BAS (Behavioral Activation), FFFS (Fight-Flight-Freeze) — as the neurobiological bases of anxiety, impulsivity, and fear.
Delroy L. Paulhus is a Canadian personality psychologist at the University of British Columbia, best known for his research on socially aversive personalities - the dark triad (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiavellianism) and, with Kevin Williams, the dark tetrad which adds everyday sadism as a fourth construct. His work on self-enhancement and overclaiming has also been influential.