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We provide an overview of instruments related to the three most representative theories of approach-avoidance (Monni et al., in Personality and Individual Differences 166: 110163, 2020): The Regulatory focus theory (Higgins, in American Psychologist 52: 1280–1300, 1997; Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 30: 1–46, 1998), the Reinforcement sensitivity theory (Gray, in Behaviour Research and Therapy 8: 249–266, 1970; The psychology of fear and stress, CUP Archive, 1987; as reported by Gray & McNaughton (The neuropsychology of anxiety: An enquiry into the functions of Septo-hippocampal system, Oxford University Press, 2000), and the Approach-Avoidance temperament theory (Elliot & Thrash, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 82: 804–812, 2002; Journal of Personality 78: 865–906, 2010). We examined published peer-reviewed empirical studies guided by three aims:(1) providing …