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Training Approach-Avoidance of Smiling Faces Affects Emotional Vulnerability in Socially Anxious Individuals

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
Previous research revealed an automatic behavioral bias in high socially anxious individuals (HSAs): Although their explicit evaluations of smiling faces are positive, they show automatic avoidance of these faces. This is reflected by faster pushing than
Mike eRinck   +7 more
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Neuroscience and approach/avoidance personality traits: a two stage (valuation-motivation) approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Many personality theories link specific traits to the sensitivities of the neural systems that control approach and avoidance. But there is no consensus on the nature of these systems.
Corr, P. J., McNaughton, N.
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Motivation in physical education across the primary-secondary school transition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the temporal patterns of approach-avoidance achievement goals, implicit theories of ability and perceived competence in physical education across the transition from primary to secondary school.
Biddle, S.J.H.,   +12 more
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Protocol for a randomized controlled trial examining multilevel prediction of response to behavioral activation and exposure-based therapy for generalized anxiety disorder. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
BACKGROUND:Only 40-60% of patients with generalized anxiety disorder experience long-lasting improvement with gold standard psychosocial interventions. Identifying neurobehavioral factors that predict treatment success might provide specific targets for ...
Abelson, J   +14 more
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Recognising and reacting to angry and happy facial expressions: a diffusion model analysis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Researchers have reported two biases in how people recognise and respond to angry and happy facial expressions: (1) a gender-expression bias (Becker et al.
A Gelman   +42 more
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Inhibit My Disinhibition: The Role of the Inferior Frontal Cortex in Sexual Inhibition and the Modulatory Influence of Sexual Excitation Proneness

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018
Sexual behaviour is the result of an interplay between distinct neural inhibitory and excitatory mechanisms. Individual differences in sexual excitation and sexual inhibition are proposed to play an important role in the processes sustaining the ...
Geraldine Rodriguez   +3 more
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The mere exposure instruction effect : mere exposure instructions influence liking [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
. The mere exposure effect refers to the well-established finding that people evaluate a stimulus more positively after repeated exposure to that stimulus.
Colin Tucker Smith   +3 more
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Manipulating the contribution of approach-avoidance to the perturbation of economic choice by valence

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2013
Economic choices are strongly influenced by whether potential outcomes entail gains or losses. We examined this influence of outcome valence in an economic risk task. We employed three experiments based on our task, each of which provided novel findings,
Nicholas D Wright   +3 more
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Inhibition Underlies the Effect of High Need for Closure on Cultural Closed-Mindedness under Mortality Salience

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
The hypothesis that people respond to reminders of mortality with closed-minded, ethnocentric attitudes has received extensive empirical support, largely from research in the Terror Management theory tradition.
Dmitrij Agroskin   +3 more
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Co-occurrence of approach and avoidance in prolonged grief: a latent class analysis

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2023
Background: Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) has been included in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR).
M. C. Eisma, L. I. M. Lenferink
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