The phrase "avoided novel" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a novel that has been avoided, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "She avoided the novel that everyone was talking about because she didn't want to be influenced by others' opinions."
Alternatives: "skipped the novel" or "steered clear of the novel.".
Individuals high in neuroticism react more strongly to stressful stimuli, are more likely to avoid novel situations and potentially aversive stimuli.
As chicks develop over the first few days of life, they show increasing fear of unfamiliar objects; they allay this anxiety by avoiding novel objects and approaching a familiar one.
Instead of expending further resources to mold the common law into a new shape that is plagued with inconsistencies we should move to a statutory approach that addresses obvious loopholes in the common law but also defines the offense in a manner that avoids novel interpretations of a criminal violation with very serious criminal consequences.
Marples et al., however, showed that dietary conservationism (long-term neophobia) in predators could facilitate the evolution of warning coloration if predators avoid novel morphs for a long enough period of time.
In experiments with house sparrows, the latency to consume novel foods and avoid novel objects was shorter for an invading population than it was for an established population [28], providing evidence that behavioral innovation may be an important mechanism mediating invasion.
Individuals thereby might benefit from avoiding novel pathogens associated with immunologically dissimilar conspecifics.
Larger brains may therefore help birds to exploit new food resources, and avoid novel predators and human disturbance [ 17].
One possibility is to mitigate the negative impact of HIREC with spatial or temporal refugia that allow organisms to more effectively hide from or avoid novel environmental stressors.
Children and adolescents with LD often have a limited vocabulary, slower processing speeds, deficiencies in memory and communication, and may have difficulties reading social cues and avoid novel social situations [ 22, 23].
Youth with ASD are at increased risk of avoiding novel situations as a result of insistence on routine and ritual (Gotham et al., 2013), further failing to experience opportunities for increased competence and confidence.
