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The moderating role of avoidance behavior on anxiety over time: Is there a difference between social anxiety disorder and specific phobia? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Theories of anxiety disorders and phobias have ascribed a critical role to avoidance behavior in explaining the persistence of fear and anxiety, but knowledge about the role of avoidance behavior in the maintenance of anxiety in social anxiety disorder ...
Myriam Rudaz +4 more
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Elevation of hilar mossy cell activity suppresses hippocampal excitability and avoidance behavior
Cell Reports, 2021 Summary: Modulation of hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) excitability regulates anxiety. In the DG, glutamatergic mossy cells (MCs) receive the excitatory drive from principal granule cells (GCs) and mediate the feedback excitation and inhibition of GCs ...
Kai-Yi Wang +8 more
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Approach and Avoidance Behavior in Female Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 ObjectivesBorderline personality disorder (BPD) is portrayed by unstable relationships, fears of abandonment and heightened sensitivity to social rejection. Research has shown that these characteristics may lead to inappropriate social behavior including
Jana Wiesenfeller +4 more
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The development and validation of the multidimensional fear-of-injection scale
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2022 Background Adults and children alike can feel anxious and afraid of needles. As a result, some people avoid necessary medical injections, leading to health problems.
Suzuka Hako, Kohei Kambara, Akiko Ogata
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The Protective Effects of Perceived Control During Repeated Exposure to Aversive Stimuli
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 The ability to perceive and exercise control is a major contributor to our mental and physical wellbeing. When faced with uncontrollable aversive stimuli, organisms develop heightened anxiety and become unwilling to exert effort to avoid the stimuli.
Kainan S. Wang +2 more
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Mapping moral motives : Approach, avoidance, and political orientation [PDF]
, 2008 Recent critiques of moral psychology and the contemporary culture wars highlight the need for a better understanding of diverse moral perspectives. A model of moral motives is proposed.
Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie +2 more
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2018 Background The avoidance-endurance model suggests both fear-avoidance responses and endurance-related responses could affect the chronicity of pain. Proper pain intervention requires measuring fear-avoidance responses and endurance-related responses but ...
Jeongwi An, Young Hoon Kim, Sungkun Cho
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Fear of natural enemies in non-human animals is a concept dating back to the time of Darwin. Now recognized as a non-consumptive effect, the ecological and evolutionary impact of fear has been studied in a number of predator-prey systems within the last ...
Jean-François Doherty, Brandon Ruehle
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Evolutionary Signature of Ancient Parasite Pressures, or the Ghost of Parasitism Past
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Animals adopt a range of avoidance strategies to reduce their exposure to parasites and the associated cost of infection. If strong selective pressures from parasites are sustained over many generations, avoidance strategies may gradually evolve from ...
Robert Poulin +6 more
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Avoidance Behavioral Difference in Acquisition and Extinction of Pain-Related Fear
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019 Fear of movement-related pain leads to two types of avoidance behavior: excessive avoidance and pain-inhibited movement. Excessive avoidance is an absence of movement by fear, and pain-inhibited movements involve a change in motor behavior for the ...
Yuki Nishi +6 more
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