Talk:Arousal

message: I find the topic of "arousal" highly unsatisfying.  In some sources "arousal system" seems to mean a certain body of projections from the brain stem.  Other sources focus more on endocrine facets.  It would be a great resource if this article better distinguished and clarified these vantage points.  MaxEnt 23:11, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
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message: Arousal and personality
•	Introvert-Extrovert Difference
•	Emotional Stability
•	Hans Eysenck Personality Theories
	4 Types: choleric, melancholic, sanguine, phlegmatic
•	Personality Types: calm, avoider, risker, hedonist
Arousal and emotion
•	Schachter-Singer Two-factor Theory 
•	James Lange Theory
•	Cannon-Bard Theory
Arousal and performance
•	Motivation and Performance: The Yerkes Dodson Law
	Difficulty and drive; shock level
Arousal and memory
•	Detection
•	Selective Attention
•	Retention
•	Retrieval
Arousal and preference
•      Levels of arousal
•      Approach-avoidance conflict
•      Individual differences based on personality type (Eysenck)
•      Wundt and Berlyne
•	Reversal Theory
Following "Abnormally increased behavioral arousal," add Problems with arousal 
•	Anxiety
•	Depression
Links that we will include:
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/arousal.html 
http://personality-project.org/revelle/syllabi/205/205.wk6.arousaltheories.pdf (slides)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/019188699290025K 
http://changingminds.org/explanations/preferences/arousal_types.htm (4 types; hedonists, etc)
We will also tag the existing Wikipedia articles for Personality, Emotion, Performance, Memory, Preference, Substance Abuse, Anxiety, and Depression.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bristudent (talk • contribs) 20:48, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It will be very interesting to read all this. Just a small note: Sentence case rather than title case is used in Wikipedia article titles and section headings. "Arousal and personality" etc. Lova Falk talk 10:01, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outline to add to Arousal 

message: Here's the current outline of the article, based on the (numbered) section titles:
    1 Importance
    2 Personality
        2.1 Introversion and extraversion
        2.2 Emotional stability vs. introversion-extraversion
        2.3 The four personality types
    3 Emotion
        3.1 Cannon–Bard theory
        3.2 James–Lange theory
        3.3 Schachter–Singer two-factor theory
    4 Memory
    5 Preference
    6 Associated problems
    7 Abnormally increased behavioral arousal
Whilst every aspect mentioned is relevant to the topic, so is one that doesn't appear: experimental support for the many theories canvassed.  An article on the science of psychology surely needs to provide some evidence to allow the reader to assess the competing claims of these theories.  I also find it bizarre that the ancient theory of four personality types seems to get as much air-time as more recent theories that do have some experimental support.
yoyo (talk) 10:25, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the science? 

message: Strangely, the lede describes the neurophysiology of arousal in detail, which surely belongs in another section of the article.  The role of the lede is to introduce the topic to the reader, allowing him or her to decide quickly whether to continue reading.  This lede fails to do that.
yoyo (talk) 10:25, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: The lede fails to do its job

message: I am currently doing research on (sleep) arousal detection for a university.
From this page on arousal I get multiple different definitions of arousal. We already have a separate page for sexual arousal, should we have more?
As mentioned before, the lede is not good enough. The first sentence leads me to believe arousal is about being awoken (from sleep), yet it also tells me it is something else. Later in the page references to "being awoken" are neglected. There is not even a single mention of sleep in the text, whereas the first two citations explicitly mentions the relation between arousal and sleep. 
Arousals in sleep are separate from the psychological/emotional/personality aspects of arousal. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2869.2004.00388.x There should be a separate page devoted to this.  
(edit:) As mentioned by yoyo above, the science for the personality/emotional aspects are lacking. I get the impression these sections are piggybacking on the sleep arousal science, which does have a clear scientific underpinning. In order to not mislead readers into thinking that the science on sleep arousal supports these other theories I believe we should separate this. 
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Oranguh (talk • contribs) 09:54, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arousal page is conflating two different definitions