Neurobehavioral organization and the cardinal principle of evaluative bivalence.
The principle of evaluative bivalence asserts that behavioral processes often organize along the evaluative dimension, due to a fundamental pattern of bivalent neurobehavioral organization extending throughout the neuraxis. This principle offers a powerful approach to the explication of complex behavioral relationships and the integration of diverse literatures. It also offers a guiding conceptual framework for the study of neurobehavioral relationships which holds the promise of integrating rather than diversifying the study of neural mechanisms for disparate behavioral phenomena.
Berntson
G G
GG
Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.
Boysen
S T
ST
Cacioppo
J T
JT
D000818:Animals; D001519:Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D002679:Pan troglodytes