Montag Christian, Solms Mark, Stelzel Christine, Davis Kenneth L
Department of Molecular Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany.
Neuroscience Institute and Psychology Department, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape 7701, South Africa.
Personal Neurosci. 2022 Sep 20;5:e10. doi: 10.1017/pen.2022.2. eCollection 2022.
The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS) were designed to provide researchers in the mental sciences with an inventory to assess primary emotional systems according to Pankseppian Affective Neuroscience Theory (ANT). The original ANPS, providing researchers with such a tool, was published in 2003. In the present brief communication, about 20 years later, we reflect upon some pressing matters regarding the further development of the ANPS. We touch upon problems related to disentangling traits and states of the primary emotional systems with the currently available versions of the ANPS and upon its psychometric properties and its length. We reflect also on problems such as the large overlap between the SADNESS and FEAR dimensions, the disentangling of PANIC and GRIEF in the context of SADNESS, and the absence of a LUST scale. Lastly, we want to encourage scientists with the present brief communication to engage in further biological validation of the ANPS.
情感神经科学人格量表（ANPS）旨在为精神科学领域的研究人员提供一份清单，以便根据潘克塞普情感神经科学理论（ANT）评估主要情绪系统。最初的ANPS于2003年发布，为研究人员提供了这样一种工具。在大约20年后的这篇简短通讯中，我们思考了有关ANPS进一步发展的一些紧迫问题。我们探讨了与利用ANPS现有版本区分主要情绪系统的特质和状态相关的问题，以及其心理测量特性和长度问题。我们还思考了诸如悲伤和恐惧维度之间的大量重叠、在悲伤情境中区分恐慌和悲痛以及缺乏欲望量表等问题。最后，我们希望通过这篇简短通讯鼓励科学家对ANPS进行进一步的生物学验证。
