If all populations harbor the potential for behavioral avoidance of warm water, then these responses might ameliorate some of the effects of climate change except in sites lacking thermal refuges.
Although the outcome variable in these studies was moral opposition to promiscuity rather than behavioral avoidance of promiscuity, these results were consistent with the view that people are flexible mating strategists, whose disposition towards one strategy versus another may vary facultatively according to conditions of one's phenotype and one's environment (Gangestad & Simpson, 2000).
We found that relative to the placebo control condition, A-FACT led to: (a) reduced levels of attentional bias to threat; (b) (non-significantly) lower rate of behavioral avoidance of exposure to an anxiogenic stressor; and (c) faster rate of emotional recovery following the stressor.
The results provide initial evidence of the role of the anterior insula as a mediating link between the bottom-up generation of affective distress and top-down behavioral avoidance of distress.
C. elegans lacking the CAT-2 tyrosine hydroxylase enzyme, which is required for dopamine biosynthesis, are hypersensitive in their behavioral avoidance of dilute concentrations of octanol.
Although the current findings must be interpreted with care, since only a specific segment of behavioral avoidance was assessed in a controlled setting, behavioral avoidance of positive interpersonal information might be a dysfunctional automatic tendency in dysphoria and depression.
Disgust propensity has been shown to predict greater behavioral avoidance of disgust-eliciting cues in individuals with symptoms of OCD (Deacon and Olatunji 2007).
Disgust is an emotional reaction that facilitates behavioral avoidance of potential sources of contamination or disease (e.g., Olatunji et al. 2007e).
This may be due to common underlying mechanisms (e.g., anxiety sensitivity [ 59]) and/or symptom overlap (e.g., behavioral avoidance of feared situations is common in each anxiety disorder).
