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Surgency

Surgency is a temperament dimension that considers an individual’s disposition toward positive affect. The APA Dictionary of Psychology defines it as "a personality trait marked by cheerfulness, responsiveness, spontaneity, and sociability but at a level below that of extraversion or mania".

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FluencyCattellValidQuestionnairesSelf-report
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Neural correlates

CorrelationAmygdalaNeuralBrain
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Overview

TemperamentPositive affectAPAExtraversionMania
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Genetic and environmental influences

HeritableAuke Tellegan
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Surgency

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Surgency

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related to Contemporary assessments · 13
Surgency → An, Children, Critics, In, Items, Lab-TAB, Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery, Mary, One, Parent-report, Rothbart, She, This
related to Notes · 13
Surgency → Cham, Encyclopedia, Holmboe, Individual Differences, ISBN, Karla, Much, Personality, Shackelford, Springer International Publishing, Todd, Virgil, Zeigler-Hill
related to overview · 9
Surgency → According, As, Avshalom Caspi, It, Mary, Rebecca Shiner, Rothbart's, The, There
related to Neural correlates · 5
Surgency → Canli, In, Kujawa, Studies, While
related to Genetic and environmental influences · 4
Surgency → Auke Tellegan, Goldsmith, In, Lior Abramson
related to Role of surgency in learning · 4
Surgency → Low-surgency, Research, Temperament, This
related to Historical perspectives · 3
Surgency → Cattell, Studman, Thurstone
is a · 1
Surgency → temperament dimension that considers an individual’s disposition toward positive affect

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