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Avoidance and Depression: The Construction of the Cognitive–Behavioral Avoidance Scale
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 2004Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between avoidance and depression, although the nature of this relationship has been confused by inconsistent definitions of avoidance. Following a review of the construct of avoidance and an examination of past research, a new multidimensional measure of avoidance was developed and validated using an ...
Keith Dobson
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Behavioral variability as avoidance behavior
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2017This study aimed to investigate whether variable patterns of responses can be acquired and maintained by negative reinforcement under an avoidance contingency. Six male Wistar rats were exposed to sessions in which behavioral variability was reinforced according to a Lag contingency: Sequences of three responses on two levers had to differ from one ...
Amilcar Rodrigues, Fonseca Júnior +1 more
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Inbreeding avoidance behaviors
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 1988Inbreeding is defined as mating between individuals related by common ancestry. Thus, the degree to which a particular mating is inbred depends on how far back in a pedigree one begins counting common ancestors. In general practice, the term inbreeding is used to describe mating between close relatives (first cousins or closer).
S F, Blouin, M, Blouin
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Behavioral Obligation and Information Avoidance
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2012Although knowledge can be powerful and bring a variety of important benefits, people often opt to remain ignorant.We propose that people are particularly inclined to remain ignorant when learning information could obligate undesirable behavior.In three studies, participants completed an online risk calculator and then learned that receiving high-risk ...
Jennifer L, Howell, James A, Shepperd
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Behavioral avoidance of contagion in childhood
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2016Although there is a large literature on children's reasoning about contagion, there has been no empirical research on children's avoidance of contagious individuals. This study is the first to investigate whether children avoid sick individuals. Participants (4- to 7-year-old children) were invited to play with two confederates-one of whom was "sick ...
Katy-Ann Blacker, Vanessa LoBue
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Predictors of Avoiding Medical Care and Reasons for Avoidance Behavior
Medical Care, 2014Delayed medical care has negative health and economic consequences; interventions have focused on appraising symptoms, with limited success in reducing delay.To identify predictors of care avoidance and reasons for avoiding care.Using the Health Information National Trends Survey (2007), we conducted logistic regressions to identify predictors of ...
Viji Diane, Kannan, Peter J, Veazie
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Avoidance behavior of the snail
Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology, 1994In the present article previously published and novel data are reviewed concerning the organization of avoidance behavior of snails of the genus Helix. Musculature participating in the behavior is described, and neural networks controlling the muscles are considered.
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The Migraine Aura as a Cause of Avoidance Behavior
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain, 1987SYNOPSIS Two patients are reported in whom the occurrence of migraine aura led to the development of avoidance behavior. In both patients the migraine aura was given a significance of doom by a previous experience. The avoidance behavior represented an attempt of the patients to deal with the visual disturbance.
E L, Spierings +2 more
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2021
The key concept for this session is emotion avoidance, which means any strategies we use to avoid feeling strong emotions or to prevent our emotions from becoming more intense. Although these responses may be useful in some situations, they rarely work well in the long term, and they can increase the intensity of our emotions when we encounter a ...
Heather Thompson-Brenner +5 more
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The key concept for this session is emotion avoidance, which means any strategies we use to avoid feeling strong emotions or to prevent our emotions from becoming more intense. Although these responses may be useful in some situations, they rarely work well in the long term, and they can increase the intensity of our emotions when we encounter a ...
Heather Thompson-Brenner +5 more
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Sadness, Depression, and Avoidance Behavior
Behavior Modification, 2008Research into genetic, psychosocial, and cognitive explanations for depression (biopsychosocial models) provides support for the role of these variables in the etiology of depression. Regularly identified as basic to depression is loss, and the experience of loss has been found to be more influential than genetic factors in the causation of depression.
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