The aim of the present study was to examine the possible role of personality traits in determining the variability of pain perception among individuals. More specifically, it was intended to test whether or not the three personality dimensions suggested by Cloninger in 1987 - mainly harm avoidance (HA), but also reward dependence (RD), and novelty seeking (NS), can predict interpersonal differe...

It is proposed to undertake a study to determine if differences in dopa-minergic reactivity among individuals could explain the variability in response to psychostimulants and to assess the relation of this reactivity to mental state and personality characteristics. Investigation of these relations may provide clues to the association between brain biochemistry and predisposition for drug abuse...

Substance ~buse and antisocial personality diagnoses such as psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder (ASP) each exhibit genetic underpinnings and share prominent comorbidity (Devor and Cloninger 1989; Crowe 1974; Schulsinger 1977; Smith and Newraan 1990). Thus, shared underlying genetic factors may contribute to ~he pathogenesis of both disorders (e.g., Gorenstein and Newman 1980). Lhlka...

Depression Research and Treatment has issued a second compendium of papers focused on temperament, character, and depression. The psychobiology theory of personality proposed by Cloninger is a currently prevailing theory of personality that has been extensively investigated in the context of many different types of mental and personality disorders. This special issue reports up-to-date research...

ABO blood groups have been studied for associations with personality traits with no scientific consensus of positive findings. Because of previously known variations in population frequency distributions of ABO blood groups and newly discovered single nucleotide polymorphisms in ABO gene in the human genome project, associations of personality traits and health risks with ABO blood groups conti...

Harm avoidance is one of the four temperament dimensions in Cloninger’s psychobiological model of personality (Cloninger et al., 1993). In this model, personality is conceptualized as having four temperament dimensions (novelty seeking, harm avoidance, reward dependence, persistence) and three character dimensions (self-directedness, cooperativeness, self-transcendence). Individuals high in har...