Payoff levels, loss avoidance, and equilibrium selection in the Stag Hunt: an experimental study [PDF]
, 2008 Game theorists typically assume that changing a game’s payoff levels—by adding the same constant to, or subtracting it from, all payoffs—should not affect behavior.
Iwasaki, Atsushi +2 more
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Food waste avoidance behavior: How different are generation Z travelers?
, 2023 This study investigates the relationship between travelers' generativity, prosocial attitudes, consumption values, and food waste avoidance behavior. We develop a theoretical model based on the motivation-opportunity-ability theory and tested it using ...
Sharma ,Nitika +15 more
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Pregnancy avoidance and coital behavior [PDF]
Demography, 1991 Abstract This study proposes a behavioral model that identifies determinants of coital activity in the context of pregnancy avoidance and assesses the relationships using weekly panel data collected on 300 rural married women in Sri Lanka in 1988.
A O, Tsui, S V, de Silva, R, Marinshaw
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Television program avoidance and personality [PDF]
, 2009 Recent communication research indicates that approach and avoidance constitute two separate yet co-existing processes during media exposure. While many studies address TV approach behavior, little is known about TV avoidance behavior.
Tabea Böcking +3 more
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Combat PTSD and implicit behavioral tendencies for positive affective stimuli: A brief report
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Background: Prior cognitive research in PTSD has focused on automatic responses to negative affective stimuli, including attentional facilitation or disengagement and avoidance action tendencies.
Ashley Nicole Clausen +8 more
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Automatic collision avoidance of ships [PDF]
, 2008 One of the key elements in automatic simulation of ship manoeuvring in confined waterways is route finding and collision avoidance. This paper presents a new practical method of automatic trajectory planning and collision avoidance based on an artificial
Lee, B.S., Han, D., Xue, Y.
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Attempts to retreat from a dead-ended long capillary by backward swimming in Paramecium
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014 We have observed how the ciliate Paramecium attempts to retreat from the dead-end of a long capillary that is too narrow for turning. After many trial-and-error episodes of short-term backward swimming (SBS), which is the conventional avoidance behavior ...
Itsuki eKunita +3 more
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Facing Your Fear in Immersive Virtual Reality: Avoidance Behavior in Specific Phobia
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 Specific phobias are the most common anxiety disorder and are characterized by avoidance behavior. Avoidance behavior impacts daily function and is proposed to impair extinction learning.
Florian P. Binder +6 more
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Experiential Avoidance Process Model: A Review of the Mechanism for the Generation and Maintenance of Avoidance Behavior. [PDF]
Psychiatry Clin PsychopharmacolExperiential avoidance refers to a phenomenon in which individuals exhibit an unwillingness to engage with certain personal experiences, including physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, memories, and behavioral tendencies.
Wang Y, Tian J, Yang Q.
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A contemporary behavior analysis of anxiety and avoidance [PDF]
The Behavior Analyst, 2009 Despite the central status of avoidance in explaining the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders, surprisingly little behavioral research has been conducted on human avoidance. In the present paper, first we provide a brief review of the empirical literature on avoidance.
Dymond, Simon, Roche, Bryan
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