Nature

Human approach-avoidance conflict behaviour relates to transdiagnostic psychiatric symptom dimensions

Approach-avoidance conflict (AAC), a laboratory representation of risky foraging, serves as mainstay of pre-clinical anxiety disorder research, motivated by an impact of anxiolytic drugs on cautious ...
Nature

Long-term stability of computational parameters during approach-avoidance conflict in a transdiagnostic psychiatric patient sample

Situations eliciting conflict between approach and avoidance drives (approach-avoidance conflict; AAC) are often difficult to handle adaptively for individuals with affective psychopathology 1. For ...
Medical Xpress

Approach–avoidance behavior can reshape how the brain interprets facial emotions

A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi University of Technology has found that approach–avoidance behavior in a virtual ...
EurekAlert!

Facial expression recognition is modulated by approach-avoidance behavior

Facial expressions play a fundamental role in social communication. While it is well established that others’ expressions influence our behavior—such as approaching a smiling person or avoiding an ...
Psychology Today

To Avoid, Approach, Perform or to Learn?

English: Autonomy Mastery Purpose vs. Carrot and Stick (Photo credit: Wikipedia) English: Autonomy Mastery Purpose vs. Carrot and Stick (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I intended to finish my trilogy on ...