Biasing Actions by Incentive Valence in an Approach/Avoidance Task [PDF]
Collabra: Psychology, 2019 The present study investigates interactions between incentive valence and action, which mirror wellknown valence-action biases in the emotional domain.
Vincent Hoofs +2 more
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A mobile approach-avoidance task. [PDF]
Behav Res Methods, 2020 Approach and avoidance tendencies have helped explain phenomena as diverse as addiction (Mogg, Field, & Bradley, 2005), phobia (Rinck & Becker, 2007), and intergroup discrimination (Bianchi, Carnaghi, & Shamloo, 2018; Degner, Essien, & Reichardt, 2016 ...
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Social anxiety changes the way we move-A social approach-avoidance task in a virtual reality CAVE system. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Investigating approach-avoidance behavior regarding affective stimuli is important in broadening the understanding of one of the most common psychiatric disorders, social anxiety disorder.
Bastian Lange, Paul Pauli
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Test-retest reliability of a smartphone-based approach-avoidance task: Effects of retest period, stimulus type, and demographics. [PDF]
Behav Res Methods, 2023 The approach-avoidance task (AAT) is an implicit task that measures people’s behavioral tendencies to approach or avoid stimuli in the environment.
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Conflict in a word‐based approach‐avoidance task is stronger with positive words [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, 2023 Background Valence and motivational direction are linked. We approach good things and avoid bad things, and experience overriding these links as conflicting.
Johannes Klackl +2 more
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How pre-processing decisions affect the reliability and validity of the approach-avoidance task: Evidence from simulations and multiverse analyses with six datasets. [PDF]
Behav Res Methods, 2023 Reaction time (RT) data are often pre-processed before analysis by rejecting outliers and errors and aggregating the data. In stimulus–response compatibility paradigms such as the approach–avoidance task (AAT), researchers often decide how to pre-process
Kahveci S +3 more
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Improving the touchscreen-based food approach-avoidance task: remediated block-order effects and initial findings regarding validity. [PDF]
Open Res Eur, 2021 Approach biases to foods may explain why food consumption often diverges from deliberate dietary intentions. Yet, the assessment of behavioural biases with the approach-avoidance tasks (AAT) is often unreliable and validity is partially unclear.
van Alebeek H, Kahveci S, Blechert J.
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Let Me Make You Happy, and I'll Tell You How You Look Around: Using an Approach-Avoidance Task as an Embodied Emotion Prime in a Free-Viewing Task. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 The embodied approach of human cognition suggests that concepts are deeply dependent upon and constrained by an agent’s physical body’s characteristics, such as performed body movements.
Czeszumski A +3 more
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eLife, 2023 Although avoidance is a prevalent feature of anxiety-related psychopathology, differences in the measurement of avoidance between humans and non-human animals hinder our progress in its theoretical understanding and treatment.
Yumeya Yamamori +2 more
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Towards the self and away from the others: evidence for self-prioritization observed in an approach avoidance task [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Processing advantages arising from self-association have been documented across various stimuli and paradigms. However, the implications of “self-association” for affective and social behavior have been scarcely investigated. The approach-avoidance task (
Neelabja Roy, Harish Karnick, Ark Verma
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