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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 ...
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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 ...
Nature

Phasic dopamine release in the rat nucleus accumbens predicts approach and avoidance performance

Dopamine (DA) is critical for reward processing, but significantly less is known about its role in punishment avoidance. Using a combined approach-avoidance task, we measured phasic DA release in the ...
Psychology Today

To Avoid, Approach, Perform or to Learn?

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JSTOR Daily

Moving toward and Away from the World: Social Approach and Avoidance Trajectories in Anxious Solitary Youth

This investigation tested the person-by-environment hypothesis that the joint influence of behavioral vulnerability (anxious solitude) and interpersonal adversity (peer exclusion) predicts heightened ...
Inc

Science Says Super-Achievers Don’t Set Avoidance Goals. Here’s Why Successful People Set Approach Goals

We all have goals, but at least some of the difference in achieving those goals comes down to how you frame them. Why does the difference matter? Compared with people who set avoidance goals, people ...