OBJECTIVE To assess psychological and psychophysiological correlates of emotion recognition and anger experience in participants with traumatic brain injury (TBI). PARTICIPANTS Twenty participants with TBI presenting with anger problems and 22 healthy controls. PROCEDURES Participants were administered tasks assessing emotion recognition (The French Evaluation Task) and anger expression (An...

Background Understanding why individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) ruminate on prior provocations, despite its negative outcomes, is crucial to improving interventions. Provocation-focused rumination may be rewarding in the short term by amplifying anger and producing feelings of justification, validation, and increased energy, while reducing self-directed negative affect. If p...

Abstract Polyvagal theory proposed that an autonomous nervous system imbalance might be characteristic of violent individuals, especially reduced parasympathetic or vagal tone. Accordingly, some studies concluded when intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators deal with acute stress, they tend to present a sympathetic predominance over the once stress has ended. However, less is known about c...