Sensation Seeking and Emotional Processing

Zheng, Xu, Jia, Tan, Chan, Zhou, et al. (2011) investigated emotional processing in high and low sensation seekers with an emotional oddball paradigm while event related potentials were recorded. high and low valence and arousal pictures were used. Behaviorally, both high and low sensation seekers did not differ. Low sensation seekers showed an enlarged N2 amplitude to emotional stimuli, wheras high sensation seekers exhibited an enhanced P3 to emotional stimuli.