aversive
Example Sentences
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Abramowitz defines exposure as “a process where you deliberately confront anxiety-provoking situations with the goal of recognizing that those situations are not as dangerous or aversive as you expected.”
From Washington Post
Difficult tasks, and particularly tasks involving heavy mental investment, come with an aversive experience of mental effort.
From Scientific American
“For some of these approximately 67 million people, it doesn’t make much difference, but most people experience the rupture as aversive.”
From New York Times
This suggests that self-reflection can be intrinsically aversive and that we have a near hysterical dread of boredom.
From New York Times
Psychological science has taught us that human beings have a negativity bias: We attend to, dwell on, recall and respond to unpleasant and aversive data more than we do with positive information.
From Scientific American
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