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Examining Approach and Avoidance Valences of the 3 X 2 Achievement Goal Types on an Engineering Student Sample: A Validity Approach

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Development of the 3 × 2 achievement goal questionnaire (AGQ) advanced approach and avoidance goals in three goal types within the achievement goal framework: task-, self-, and other-based.
Nathaniel Hunsu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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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Children are more exploratory and learn more than adults in an approach-avoid task

open access: yesCognition, 2020
Intuitively, children appear to be more exploratory than adults, and this exploration seems to help children learn, but there have been few clear tests of this idea. We test whether exploration and learning change across development using a task that presents a “learning trap.” In this task, exploitation—maximizing immediate reward and avoiding costs ...
Emily Liquin, alison gopnik
openaire   +3 more sources

Swipe up to smoke less cigarettes! Introducing a mobile Approach-Avoidance Task Application to fight Smoking

open access: yesCurrent Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2020
Automatic tendencies to approach addictionrelated stimuli have been linked to the development and maintenance of harmful drug use behavior. Recent studies have shown that these automatic approaches can be directly addressed and modified by cognitive bias
Eiler Tanja Joan   +8 more
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Does the Approach/Avoidance Task Correlate with Other Measures of Approach/Avoidance Processes? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Approach/Avoidance Task (AAT; Rinck & Becker, 2007) assesses approach and avoidance motivational processes by requiring participants to respond to pictures by either pulling a joystick handle toward them or pushing it away.
Thibodeau, Ryan
core   +1 more source

Achievement Goal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Achievement goals are self-regulatory commitments that provide direction to individuals as they interpret and respond to competence-relevant situations. Four types of achievement goals have been the primary focus of the literature: Masteryapproach goals (
AJ Elliot   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Coordinated task manipulation by nonholonomic mobile robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Coordinated task manipulation by a group of autonomous mobile robots has received signicant research effort in the last decade. Previous studies in the area revealed that one of the main problems in the area is to avoid the collisions of the robots with ...
Güleç, Nusrettin   +2 more
core  

Distributed Collision-Free Motion Coordination on a Sphere: A Conic Control Barrier Function Approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This letter studies a distributed collision avoidance control problem for a group of rigid bodies on a sphere. A rigid body network, consisting of multiple rigid bodies constrained to a spherical surface and an interconnection topology, is first ...
Ames, Aaron D.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

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
doaj   +1 more source

Decentralized Hybrid Formation Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

open access: yes, 2014
This paper presents a decentralized hybrid supervisory control approach for a team of unmanned helicopters that are involved in a leader-follower formation mission. Using a polar partitioning technique, the motion dynamics of the follower helicopters are
Karimadini, Mohammad   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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