The insistence on routine and ritual exhibited by many youth with ASD, which has been associated with emotional problems (Gotham et al., 2013), may lead to an increased likelihood of choosing a limited number of pleasurable and familiar situations.
Busch's range of characters and situations, so pleasurable for the reader, is more problematic for the reviewer.
Avoidance is a common element of anxiety disorders (Aldao et al., 2010; Rapee, 2002), and depression, where individuals withdraw from pleasurable activities and social situations (Mash & Wolfe, 2002).
Square on the iPad tends to be the most pleasurable experience in a POS situation, except for one small problem.
Like many counseling Web sites, Vets Prevail emphasizes how thoughts affect mood and the program tries to reduce avoidance of anxiety-producing situations and increase pleasurable activities, said Dr. Benjamin Van Voorhees, a paid consultant who is supervising a pilot study of the Vets Prevail program.
In this company, McBride is comfortable improvising, and in "Eastbound" there's a lot of pleasurable tension in watching Kenny create difficult situations with his poor judgment and get out of them with his escape artist's quick brain.
Recently, however, it was shown that 50-kHz calls can also occur in situations that are not necessarily pleasurable or even mildly aversive to rats.
It's never less than pleasurable to read and there are good jokes and funny situations; it's just that it never tries to be much more than good jokes or funny situations.
When asked, people think that novel, uncertain events will be less pleasurable than feeling absolutely certain and possessing every bit of information possible in a situation.
These behaviours are often assessed with tests that quantify the reduction of interest for a pleasurable event (e.g., sucrose intake) or the reluctance to escape from an unpleasant situation (e.g., forced swim test, tail suspension test, and learned helplessness).
