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appetitive system

appetitive system

extraversion as represented by an individual’s relative sensitivity to positive or rewarding (appetitive) cues and stimuli and his or her processes for approaching them. Compare aversive system. See also behavioral approach system. [proposed by British psychologist Jeffrey Alan Gray (1934–2004)]

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