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Approach-avoidance motivation across cultures
… processes. One such psychological process is approach and avoidance motivations: approach motivation is useful for Westerners’ pursuit of high self-esteem whereas avoidance motivation is useful for East Asians’ concerns for face maintenance. Review of prior research renders support to this …
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Sympathetic Arousal During Approach-Avoidance Decision- Making
… conflicting emotional outcomes, using an approachavoidance processing paradigm. In these situations, individuals are faced with two emotionally valenced outcomes, typically one positive and one negative. However, if the negative outcome is chosen, the individual is given a reward; by this …
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The effects of approach-avoidance behaviors on goal appraisals
… has demonstrated that behaviors associated with approach and avoidance motivation can influence cognitions in line with the particular motivational state (e.g., Friedman & F̈örster, 2008). The present studies examined whether behaviors associated with approach and avoidance motivation similarly …
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The effects of approach-avoidance modification on social anxiety disorder
Recent empirical studies using approach-avoidance modification have found a reduction in symptoms and relapse in individuals with substance use, achieved by modifying unhealthy approach tendencies. This raises the question as to whether the benefits of such an intervention can generalize to …
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A neuronal switch for approach/avoidance in cost-benefit decision
… has a very simple nervous system. Orienting and avoidance responses are dependent on the appetitive state, such that very hungry animals may attack noxious stimuli and satiated animals will avoid appetitive stimuli. A multifunctional turn network is active in response to the unilateral …
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Proactive and Retroactive Effects of Electroconvulsive Shock on Approach-Avoidance Conflict
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Approach/avoidance motivation and goal maintenance: implications for models of executive function
Trait motivational approach and avoidance tendencies have a differential effect on cognitive processing, at least in part via associations with affective traits. Positive and negative emotionality are fundamental components of these motivational dispositions and have been linked in some studies to …
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Measuring Approach-Avoidance Motivation: Expanding the Dimensionality and the Implied Outcomes Problem
… examine how best to fully represent and measure approach-avoidance motivational orientation using self-reports. Participants responded to a variety of existing, revised, and new scales across the theoretical spectrum of approach-avoidance motivation. Exploratory factor analyses were conducted to …
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Physical Activity Engagement Linked Linked to Frontal Asymmetry During Approach-Avoidance Decision Making
… Theory (RST) thought to govern behavioral approach, fight-flight-freeze, and motivational control responses. Research to date has primarily focused on the link between these patterns of frontal asymmetry at rest and self-reported habitual physical activity levels. However, past research has …
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A Preliminary Examination of Adding the Approach-Avoidance Distinction to Achievement Goal Theory
… task indicated that participants' adoption of avoidance goals were not predicted by their levels of perceived ability or performance expectancies. Additionally, participants adopting avoidance goals did not differ from participants adopting approach goals in their reported enjoyment or effort. …
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The influence of trait approach & avoidance motivation on the course of depression and anxiety
Trait approach and avoidance motivation are higher-order individual differences that are related to personality, emotional temperament, and basic drives (i.e., sensitivity to pain and pleasure). Previous research has shown that approach and avoidance motivation are related to depression and …
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Relationship Between Age, Store Attributes, Shopping Orientations, and Approach-Avoidance Behavior of Elderly Apparel Consumers
… the relationship between store attributes and approach-avoidance behavior of elderly apparel consumers. In addition, this research examined the relationships between age, the importance of store attributes, and shopping orientations of elderly apparel consumers. Data were collected using a …
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The relationship between perceived employability, core self-evaluations, and approach-avoidance temperaments in South African University students
… employability, this study adopts an approach-avoidance framework to identify how individual difference factors may explain individuals' employability perceptions. This cross-sectional study collected survey response data from 303 South African prospective job seekers. Correlation …
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The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Facial Expression Approach/Avoidance in College Students and Faculty with Broad Autism Phenotype
… training to the frontal lobes could increase approach toward social interactions in adults classified as BAP as demonstrated by eye-tracking measures in response to faces and gaze fixation. The study included 21 total participants recruited from the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math …
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Distinguishing Medial Temporal Lobe and Prefrontal Cortex Contributions to Approach-Avoidance Conflict in Healthy Controls and Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Insights from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Hierarchical Drift Diffusion Model
The ability to arbitrate approach-avoidance (AA) conflict, a cognitive state elicited by simultaneous reward and punishment, is critical for adaptive decision-making. Across translational rodent and human models, AA conflict has been associated with anxiety and is supported by a network of brain …
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Approach And Avoidance Coping Humor Motives and Their Relation To Trauma Exposure And Physical Health
<p>The present study investigated approach-avoidance motives for humor use and their association with physical health symptoms linked to childhood trauma exposure and adult relationship trauma exposure among military-affiliated people and civilians (N=100). Results indicated that approach-avoidance …
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Psychological Monitoring: Detecting Real-Time Emotional Changes
… of independently estimating valence, motivation (approach-avoidance), and activation (arousal) through estimations of parasympathetic (PNS), α-adrenergic (α-SNS), and β-adrenergic (β-SNS) sympathetic nervous system activity. These separate autonomic systems correspond to distinct emotional …
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A derived relations analysis of the aetiology, maintenance and treatment of fear and anxiety in human participants
… Whilst early studies dealt with anxiety as mere avoidance, this idea was eventually challenged. It was since proposed that avoidance only becomes problematic when it eliminates contact with appetitive events and/or puts the individual in contact with aversive events. In other words, avoidance is …
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Using the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) as a Measure of Spider Fear, Approach and Avoidance
… Procedure (IRAP) as a measure of spider fear, approach, and avoidance. Participants were drawn from a normative sample of university undergraduates. Study 1employed The Fear of Spiders Questionnaire (FSQ), a Behavioral Approach Task (BAT) using a spider moult, and a Rule Focussed IRAP …
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The Relationship between the Attitude toward Mathematics and the Frequency of Classroom Observations of Mathematics Lessons by Elementary School Administrators
… school administrators. This study considered Approach-Avoidance Motivation as part of the conceptual framework guiding the research. Approach-avoidance motivation refers to a person's approach of tasks that are pleasant or enjoyable and avoidance of tasks that are disliked or not enjoyable. …
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