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Personality theories of addiction are psychological models that associate personality traits or modes of thinking (i.e., affective states) with an individual's proclivity for developing an addiction. Models of addiction risk that have been proposed in psychology literature include an affect dysregulation model of positive and negative ...
One of the earliest theories of addiction was the reward effect. This theory suggests that an individual consumes a substance that will elicit a pleasurable effect. The individual continues to use this substance to recreate this same feeling, ultimately becoming addicted to the sensation they receive from the substance.
Definitions [ edit] " Addiction " and " addictive behaviour " are polysemes denoting a category of mental disorders, of neuropsychological symptoms, or of merely maladaptive /harmful habits and lifestyles. [9] A common use of "addiction" in medicine is for neuropsychological symptoms denoting pervasive/excessive and intense urges to engage in a ...
Addictive personality. An addictive personality refers to a hypothesized set of personality traits that make an individual predisposed to developing addictions. This hypothesis states that there may be common personality traits observable in people suffering from addiction; however, the lack of a universally agreed upon definition has marked ...
Alfred R. Lindesmith. Advocacy of a medical approach to drug addiction. Alfred Ray Lindesmith (August 3, 1905 – February 14, 1991) was an Indiana University professor of sociology. He was among the early scholars providing a rigorous and thoughtful account of the nature of addiction. He was a critic of legal prohibitions against addictive ...
Rational addiction. In behavioral economics, rational addiction is the hypothesis that addictions can be usefully modeled as specific kinds of rational, forward-looking, optimal consumption plans. The canonical theory comes from work done by Kevin M. Murphy and Gary Becker. [1]
Disease model of addiction. The disease model of addiction describes an addiction as a disease with biological, neurological, genetic, and environmental sources of origin. [1] The traditional medical model of disease requires only that an abnormal condition be present that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the affected individual.
Scientific career. Fields. Biopsychology. Neuroscience. Institutions. University of Michigan. Kent C. Berridge [1] (born 1957) is an American academic, currently working as a professor of psychology ( biopsychology) and neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Berridge was a joint winner of the 2018 Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.