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Stimulus Avoidance Assessment: A Systematic Literature Review
Board certified behavior analysts are ethically required to first address destructive behavior using reinforcement-based and other less intrusive...
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Test-retest reliability of a smartphone-based approach-avoidance task: Effects of retest period, stimulus type, and demographics
The approach-avoidance task (AAT) is an implicit task that measures people’s behavioral tendencies to approach or avoid stimuli in the environment....
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Reliance on distraction is associated with increased avoidance behavior under approach-avoidance conflict
The use of less effective emotional regulation strategies, such as distraction, may relate to greater reliance on avoidance behavior under conflict....
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Transfer of Approach-Avoidance Training: Motoric or Goal-Related?
Approach-avoidance training (AAT) procedures were developed with the prospect that they can modify action impulses to approach or avoid specific...
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Behavioural approach-avoidance tendencies among individuals with elevated blood pressure
Emotional dampening (blunted responses to affective stimuli or experiences) has been reported in individuals with clinical and subclinical levels of...
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Transdiagnostic fears and avoidance behaviors in self-reported eating disorders
BackgroundFears and avoidance behaviors are common symptoms of eating disorders. It was investigated whether different eating disorder diagnoses are...
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Anxiety as a disorder of uncertainty: implications for understanding maladaptive anxiety, anxious avoidance, and exposure therapy
In cognitive-behavioral conceptualizations of anxiety, exaggerated threat expectancies underlie maladaptive anxiety. This view has led to successful...
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A preliminary characterization of the psychometric properties and generalizability of a novel social approach-avoidance paradigm
Social behaviors are guided in part by motivational and emotional responses to affective facial expressions. In daily life, facial expressions...
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An Anger-based Approach-Avoidance Modification Training Targeting Dysfunctional Beliefs in Adults with Elevated Stress – Results from a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study
We examined the feasibility, acceptability, and clinical potential of a smartphone-based Approach-Avoidance Modification Training (AAMT) that...
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Avoidance Bias to Angry Faces Predicts the Development of Depressive Symptoms among Adolescent Girls
Interpersonal-motivational models posit that heightened avoidance of aversive social stimuli and diminished approach of appetitive social stimuli...
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Social avoidance behavior modulates motivational responses to social reward-threat conflict signals: A preliminary fMRI study
Social avoidance behavior (SAB) produces impairment in multiple domains and contributes to the development and maintenance of several psychiatric...
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Stimulus Preference Assessment Decision-Making System (SPADS): A Decision-Making Model for Practitioners
A stimulus preference assessment (SPA) is a fundamental tool used by practitioners to predict stimuli that function as reinforcers. The Behavior...
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Immersive VR for investigating threat avoidance: The VRthreat toolkit for Unity
All animals have to respond to immediate threats in order to survive. In non-human animals, a diversity of sophisticated behaviours has been...
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Looming Cognitive Style: How It Mediates the Association of Harm Avoidance with Trait and State Emotion Regulation Difficulties
Understanding the factors that are associated with individual differences in emotion regulation (ER) difficulties, which is one of the common...
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Promoting a hand sanitizer by persuasive messages: moving bottle and background color as approach and avoidance cues
In message-based health interventions, peripheral cues such as motion and color capture exogenous attention. These cues may elicit approach and...
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A Preliminary Assessment to Determine the Starting Point for Treatment of Pediatric Feeding Disorders
Escape extinction has been identified as an effective treatment for feeding problems. However, negative side effects, such as extinction bursts and...
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A dimensional measure of safety behavior: A non-dichotomous assessment of costly avoidance in human fear conditioning
Safety behavior prevents the occurrence of threat, thus it is typically considered adaptive. However, safety behavior in anxiety-related disorders is...
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A Review of Crying and Caregiving: Crying as a Stimulus
The interactions between infants and caregivers are critical to infant development and caregiver well-being. Traditional developmental research has...
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Calibrating your own fears: Feasibility of a remote fear conditioning paradigm with semi-subjective stimulus calibration and differences in fear learning
Fear conditioning studies have occurred mostly in the laboratory, but recently researchers have started to adapt fear conditioning procedures for...
