aversive

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Some applications of Colorado’s prohibition “may address conduct—such as aversive physical interventions,” Justice Gorsuch says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

“If you excessively avoid things that are aversive, that comes at the cost of getting rewards, finding mates, getting food, and things like that,” Kheirbek told Salon in a phone interview.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2025

"The framework by which we judge what is rewarding or aversive is fundamental to how we make medical decisions," said co-senior author Hans Breiter, a professor of computer science at UC.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Only 18% of owners who took part in the survey used no aversive training methods or aids.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

But she only bowed slightly to him, with a sidelong, aversive glance, and walked out of the room with a slow, rigid pace, like one that controls a tendency to giddiness.

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean