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Background: The personality-behavior relationship, predictive accuracies of personality measures, and their links with behavior change require a systematic examination. Drawing on the Hippocrates-Galen-Avicennic tradition and the works of Pavlov, Skinner, Mowrer, Eysenck and Gray, this article proposes a three-dimensional behavioral typology and outlines a schema for multiple risk behavior change. It is argued that behaviors, as explained by psychophysiological processes, reinforcement-sensitive behavioral systems and social learning, shall be differentially conditionable by appropriate punishment- or reward-oriented messages. Method: A cross-sectional survey was designed to explore the hypothesized role of psychobiological personality dimensions in smoking, alcohol-use and substance-use behaviors. Two standard personality inventories and a behavioral questionnaire were administered to a sample of college students. Descriptive, correlational, and Receiver Operating Characteristic analy ....

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