aversive

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Mr. Bailey offers practical techniques for overcoming the aversive elements of our goals, which are most likely to lead to procrastination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 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 participants were then asked to recontextualize the stimulus by generating new kinds of thoughts about an image to make it less aversive, before a neutral image was presented followed by another dislikable image.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 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