Action Interpretation Determines the Effects of Go/No-Go and Approach/Avoidance Actions on Food Choice [PDF]
Journal of CognitionExecuting go/no-go and approach/avoidance responses toward objects can increase people’s choices of go over no-go items, and of approach over avoidance items.
Zhang Chen +4 more
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Effects of menstrual cycle phases on approach-avoidance behaviors in women: a behavioral and event-related potentials study [PDF]
BMC PsychologyMenstrual cycle influences approach-avoidance behavior in females as a result of fluctuations in sex hormone levels, but the underlying neuropsychological processes are unknown.
Danyang Li, Chang Xu, Xiaochun Wang
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The Modulatory Role of Cortisol in the Regulation of Sexual Behavior in Young Males
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 The proneness to be sexually aroused, to perform sexual acts, or to be sexually disinhibited during a particular mood varies across individuals. However, the physiological mechanisms underlying this specific and variable relationship between mood and sex-
Geraldine Rodríguez-Nieto +5 more
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Assessing Automatic Approach-Avoidance Behavior in an Immersive Virtual Environment
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2021 The use of virtual reality (VR) promises enormous potential for studying human behavior. While approach and avoidance tendencies have been explored in various areas of basic and applied psychology, such as attitude and emotion research, basic learning ...
Juliane Degner +3 more
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Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activity and Sympathetic Allostasis During Value-Based Ambivalence
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Anxiety is characterized by low confidence in daily decisions, coupled with high levels of phenomenological stress. Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) plays an integral role in maladaptive anxious behaviors via decreased sensitivity to threatening vs.
Neil M. Dundon +5 more
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Conflict Test Battery for Studying the Act of Facing Threats in Pursuit of Rewards
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Survival depends on the ability of animals to avoid threats and approach rewards. Traditionally, these two opposing motivational systems have been studied separately. In nature, however, they regularly compete for the control of behavior.
Elizabeth Illescas-Huerta +4 more
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Approach and Avoidance Behavior in Female Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 ObjectivesBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is portrayed by unstable relationships, fears of abandonment and heightened sensitivity to social rejection. Research has shown that these characteristics may lead to inappropriate social behavior including
Jana Wiesenfeller +4 more
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Ambivalent Food Craving and Psychobiological Characteristics in Individuals With Weight Suppression
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study investigated the effects of psychobiological characteristics of non-obese women with a high level of weight suppression (H-WS) on explicit-implicit and approach-avoidance response toward food cues, depending on hunger-satiety states.
Mooah Lee, Jang-Han Lee
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A Review on the Role of Affective Stimuli in Event-Related Frontal Alpha Asymmetry
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 Frontal alpha asymmetry refers to the difference between the right and left alpha activity over the frontal brain region. Increased activity in the left hemisphere has been linked to approach motivation and increased activity in the right hemisphere has ...
Priya Sabu +4 more
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Antecedents of approach-avoidance achievement goal adoption in physical education: A longitudinal perspective [PDF]
, 2009 The purpose of this study was to examine the temporal pattern of pupils’ approach-avoidance achievement goal adoption in physical education across Key Stage 3 of secondary school.
Spray, C. M., Warburton, V. E.
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