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Cortico-Accumbens Regulation of Approach-Avoidance Behavior Is Modified by Experience and Chronic Pain

Cell Reports, 2017
Although optimizing decisions between drives to avoid pain and to obtain reward are critical for survival, understanding the neuronal circuit activity that regulates choice during approach-avoidance conflicts is limited.
Neil Schwartz, Catriona Miller, Howard L. Fields   +2 more
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Reliability and convergence of approach/avoidance bias assessment tasks in the food consumption domain

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2021
Theories of motivation posit that people will more readily approach positive or appetitive stimuli, and there has been growing interest in the relationship between biases in approach and avoidance behaviours for food cues and food craving and consumption behaviour.
Julian Basanovic, Laura Dondzilo, Daniel Rudaizky, Bram Van Bockstaele   +3 more
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The Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a measure of spider fear, avoidance and approach [PDF]

, 2016
The current study examined the use of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a measure of spider fear, approach, and avoidance. Participants were drawn from a normative sample of university undergraduates.
Barnes-Holmes, Patrick Michael Dermot, Leech, Aileen, Madden, Lara   +2 more
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Students' Achievement Goals, Learning-Related Emotions and Academic Achievement

Frontiers in Psychology, 2016
In the present research, the recently proposed 3x2 model of achievement goals is tested and associations with achievement emotions and their joint influence on academic achievement are investigated. The study was conducted with 388 students using the 3x2
Marko eLüftenegger, Julia eKlug, Katharina eHarrer, Marie eLanger, Christiane eSpiel, Barbara eSchober   +5 more
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Quantifying Human Avoidance Behavior in Immersive Virtual Reality

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
Avoidance behavior is a key symptom of most anxiety disorders and a central readout in animal research. However, the quantification of real-life avoidance behavior in humans is typically restricted to clinical populations, who show actual avoidance of ...
Florian P. Binder, Florian P. Binder, Victor I. Spoormaker   +2 more
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Predicting occurrence of and responses to psychological difficulties: the interplay between achievement goals, perceived ability and motivational climates among Korean athletes [PDF]

, 2011
The present study investigated the interrelationship of goal orientations, perceived ability, and perceived motivational climate to the experience of stress, perceived controllability, and choice of coping strategies.
Duda, Joan L., Gano-Overway, Lori, Kim, Mi-Sook   +2 more
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The Effects of Training to Reduce Automatic Action Tendencies Toward Alcohol Using the Virtual Alcohol Approach-Avoidance Task in Heavy Social Drinkers

Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 2019
This study aimed to reduce the approach tendency toward alcohol among heavy social drinkers using the Virtual Alcohol Approach-Avoidance Training Task training.
Deok-Yong Kim, Jang-Han Lee
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Goal Orientation and Its Impact on University Students’ Academic Achievement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

SAGE Open, 2022
The study explored (1) the relationship between university students’ goal orientations (according to the 3 × 2 model) and their academic achievement during COVID-19 pandemic, (2) differences in academic achievement by students’ levels in goal ...
Sumayyah S. Alasqah
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Midfrontal Theta Activity Is Sensitive to Approach–Avoidance Conflict

Journal of Neuroscience, 2022
Midfrontal theta (FMθ) in the human EEG is commonly viewed as a generic and homogeneous mechanism of cognitive control in general and conflict processing in particular.
Leon Lange, Lena Rommerskirchen, Roman Osinsky   +2 more
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Sacrificing reward to avoid threat: Characterizing PTSD in the context of a trauma-related approach-avoidance conflict task.

Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 2020
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is characterized by heightened avoidance, cognitive inflexibility, and impaired reward processing. Maladaptive behavior in PTSD may reflect an imbalance between approach and avoidance, but no research has investigated
Shelby S. Weaver, Emily B. Kroska, M. Ross, Anneliis Sartin-Tarm, Kyrie Sellnow, K. Schaumberg, K. Kiehl, M. Koenigs, J. Cisler   +8 more
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