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 ...
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 ...
Nature

The ventral hippocampus is necessary for cue-elicited, but not outcome driven approach-avoidance conflict decisions: a novel operant choice decision-making task

Many decisions such as choosing a restaurant to dine in, or foraging for food in the wild require the organism to accumulate and integrate information across multiple domains that include the reward ...
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 ...