The phrase "mental aversion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong dislike or avoidance of certain thoughts, ideas, or situations.
Example: "She felt a mental aversion to the idea of public speaking, which made her anxious whenever she had to present."
Alternatives: "cognitive resistance" or "psychological repulsion."
The authors call for an approach based on two ideas (both mentioned on earlier occasions in this space): loss aversion and mental accounts.Loss aversion is the idea that people feel the pain of a loss more acutely than the pleasure of a gain of equal size: changes in wealth, and their direction, are what count, regardless of levels.
In this respect, loss aversion and mental accounting can actually help investors by encouraging them to over-save relative to rosy scenarios and maintain rainy day funds.
And again, those concerned about the flu -- but who had not had the opportunity to wash their hands -- were likely to make the mental leap from germ aversion to social prejudice.
The Nobel announcement credited Thaler, whose work has explored mental quirks such as loss aversion and the status-quo bias, for building "a bridge between the economic and psychological analyses of individual decision-making".
Furthermore, it explains why certain dispositions, such as aversion, persist in the mental stream of an individual (because appropriation follows the initial experience of a first moment of aversion), and how it is possible to overcome such dispositions (when appropriation is associated with factors that condition non-aversive states of mind).
(Indeed, a key point of Scorsese's plot is the era's aversion to psychotherapy and shame of mental illness).
The symptoms observed in ADHD have been explained as an executive dysfunction [ 33, 94, 95], as a non-optimal mental energy state [ 96, 97], as delay aversion linked to motivational deficits, and as a cognitive inhibitory deficit [ 26, 95, 98].
When these resources are depleted by prior tasks that require increased effort and concentration, we can experience a deep-seated aversion to planning, knowing that it would require the mental energy we simply can't expend.
As Goldsman had an aversion to shooting in hospitals, they used a church for the mental hospital scenes.
