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Behavioural inhibition and valuation of gain/loss are neurally distinct from approach/withdrawal
Gain or omission/termination of loss produces approach; while loss or omission/termination of gain produces withdrawal. Control of approach/withdrawal motivation is distinct from valuation of gain/loss and does not entail learning â making ârewardâ and âpunishmentâ ambiguous. Approach-withdrawal goal conflict engages a neurally distinct Behavioural Inhibition System, which controls âanxietyâ (conflict/passive avoidance) but not âfearâ (withdrawal/active avoidance)
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Survival circuits and risk assessment
Risk assessment (RA) behaviour is unusual in the context of survival circuits. An external object elicits eating, mating or fleeing; but conflict between internal approach and withdrawal tendencies elicits RA-specific behaviour that scans the environment for new information to bring closure. Recently rodent and human threat responses have been compared using âpredatorsâ that can be real (e.g. a tarantula), robot, virtual, or symbolic (with the last three rendered predatory by the use of shock). âQuick and dirtyâ survival circuits in the periaqueductal grey, hypothalamus, and amygdala control external RA behaviour. These subcortical circuits activate, and are partially inhibited by, higher-order internal RA processes (anxiety, memory scanning, evaluation and sometimes â maladaptive rumination) in the ventral hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United Kingdom: A personality-based perspective on concerns and intention to self-isolate
Objectives
Public behaviour change is necessary to contain the spread of coronavirus (COVIDâ19). Based on the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) framework, this study presents an examination of individual differences in some relevant psychological factors.
Design
Crossâsectional psychometric.
Methods
UK respondents (N = 202) completed a personality questionnaire (RSTâPQ), measures of illness attitudes, concerns about the impact of coronavirus on health services and socioâeconomic infrastructures, personal safety, and likelihood of voluntary selfâisolation.
Results
Respondents most concerned were older, had negative illness attitudes, and scored higher on reward reactivity (RR), indicating the motivation to take positive approach action despite prevailing worry/anxiety. Personal safety concerns were highest in those with negative illness attitudes and higher fightâflightâfreeze system (FFFS, reflecting fear/avoidance) scores. Results suggest people are experiencing psychological conflict: between the urge to stay safe (FFFFârelated) and the desire to maintain a normal, pleasurable (RRârelated) life. Ways of ameliorating conflict may include maladaptive behaviours (panic buying), reflecting rewardârelated displacement activity. Intended selfâisolation related to FFFS, but also low behavioural inhibition system (related to anxiety) scores. Older people reported themselves less likely to selfâisolate.
Conclusions
Interventions need to consider individual differences in psychological factors in behaviour change, and we discuss relevant literature to inform policy makers and communicators
Double layer formation in the expanding region of an inductively coupled electronegative plasma
Double-layers (DLs) were observed in the expanding region of an inductively
coupled plasma with gas mixtures. No DL was observed
in pure argon or fractions below few percent. They exist over a
wide range of power and pressure although they are only stable for a small
window of electronegativity (typically between 8\% and 13\% of
at 1mTorr), becoming unstable at higher electronegativity. They seem to be
formed at the boundary between the source tube and the diffusion chamber and
act as an internal boundary (the amplitude being roughly
1.5)between a high electron density, high electron
temperature, low electronegativity plasma upstream (in the source), and a low
electron density, low electron temperature, high electronegativity plasma
downstream
Experimental investigation of double layers in expanding plasmas
Double layers (DLs) have been observed in a plasma reactor composed of a
source chamber attached to a larger expanding chamber. Positive ion beams
generated across the DL were characterized in the low plasma potential region
using retarding field energy analyzers. In electropositive gases, DLs were
formed at very low pressures between 0.1 and 1 mTorr with the plasma expansion
forced by a strongly diverging magnetic field. The DL remains static, robust to
changes in boundary conditions, and its position is related to the magnetic
field lines. The voltage drop across the DL increases with decreasing pressure,
i.e., with increasing electron temperature around 20 V at 0.17 mTorr. DLs were
also observed in electronegative gases without a magnetic field over a greater
range of pressure 0.5 to 10 mTorr. The actual profile of the electronegative DL
is very sensitive to external parameters and intrusive elements, and they
propagate at high negative ion fraction. Electrostatic probes measurements and
laser-induced photodetachment show discontinuities in all plasma parameters
electron density, electron temperature, negative ion fraction at the DL
position. The voltage drop across the electronegative DL is about 8 V, is
independent of the gas pressure and therefore of the electron temperature
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