[The psychophysiology of the emotions and personality].
According to the need-informational approach the need is specific (essential) force of living organisms, procuring their connections with external environment for self-preservation and self-development, a source of living systems' activity in the surrounding world. Emotion-reflection in human and higher animals' brain of an urgent need and of probability (possibility) of its satisfaction. Emotion in its neurophysiological sense is an active state of a system of specialized brain structures, prompting the subject to change his behaviour so that to maximize or to minimize this state which determines the role of emotions in organization of goal-directed behaviour. Personality is individual unique composition and internal hierarchy of basic (vital, social, ideal) needs of a given human being, including their varieties of preservation and development, "for me" and "for others". The most important personality characteristic is which of those needs and for how long are dominant in the hierarchy of coexisting motives, which need is "supplied" by creative intuition (superconsciousness, according to K. S. Stanislavskiĭ's terminology).
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D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006613:Higher Nervous Activity / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D011336:Probability; D011603:Psychophysiology
Psikhofiziologiia émotsiĭ i lichnost'.