Gray [27, 28] also described the behavioral activation system (BAS) as a regulatory system measuring positive affect and approach behavior towards signals of reward.
This takes little effort, since smiling faces automatically trigger what's known as "approach behavior".
Yan, X., Yong, X., Huang, W. & Ma, Y .Placebo treatment facilitates social trust and approach behavior.
Liu, S. et al. Consumption of palatable food primes food approach behavior by rapidly increasing synaptic density in the VTA.
Thus, VTA astrocytes selectively regulate excitation of local GABA neurons to drive a distinct avoidance circuit that opposes approach behavior.
One way to evaluate sexual arousal is by measuring approach behavior to sexual incentive stimuli.
In nonhuman mammals, oxytocin has a critical role in peer recognition and social approach behavior.
The neuropeptide oxytocin plays a central role in social approach behavior in nonhuman mammals.
Results showed cues prompting avoidance, escape and approach behavior recruited a similar fronto-striatal-parietal network.
Oxytocin is known to reduce anxiety and stress in social interactions as well as to modulate approach behavior.
The subliminal effect of the floral additive led to more positive emotional thought and supported social approach behavior.
