Abstract
AbstractThis short communication presents a Serbian version of the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS). The ANPS is a self-report measure assessing individual differences in primary emotional systems as derived from Jaak Panksepp’s Affective Neuroscience Theory. As a recent work by Montag & Panksepp (2017a) confirmed the original demonstration of strong associations between primary emotions and the Five-Factor Model of Personality (Davis et al., 2003) across different cultures (USA, Germany, China), we replicated these findings in a Serbian sample. Moreover, following the idea of a recent commentary of Di Domencio & Ryan (2017) on Montag & Panksepp’s (2017a), we present for the first time detailed associations between Five-Factor Model facets as assessed with the NEO-PI-R and primary emotions.
Highlights
The Affective Neuroscience Theory (ANT) by Jaak Panksepp represents one of the most important emotion theories to understand affective lives of mammalian beings (Davis & Montag, 2018; Panksepp, 1998; Panksepp, 2011)
Together with an older work by Davis and his colleagues (2003), evidence from the USA, Germany and China point towards the idea that SEEKING could reflect the emotional foundation of Openness to Experience, PLAY for Extraversion, low ANGER/high CARE for Agreeableness and FEAR, SADNESS and ANGER for Neuroticism
The same is true for PLAY and Extraversion, high CARE/low ANGER for Agreeableness and FEAR, SADNESS, ANGER for Neuroticism
Summary
The Affective Neuroscience Theory (ANT) by Jaak Panksepp represents one of the most important emotion theories to understand affective lives of mammalian beings (Davis & Montag, 2018; Panksepp, 1998; Panksepp, 2011). Together with an older work by Davis and his colleagues (2003), evidence from the USA, Germany and China point towards the idea that (high) SEEKING could reflect the emotional foundation of Openness to Experience, (high) PLAY for Extraversion, low ANGER/high CARE for Agreeableness and (high) FEAR, SADNESS and ANGER for Neuroticism (see Barrett et al, 2013; Montag & Davis, 2018) In all these works individual differences in primary emotional systems have been assessed with the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS), a wellknown tertiary measure of a person’s endophenotype based on Panksepp’s ANT (Davis & Panksepp, 2011). We know of several additional translations that have not been published including a Japanese version to be published soon (for a recent perspective on cross-cultural affective neuroscience see Özkarar-Gradwohl, 2019)
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