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When the thought of yourself nags you: How failure to attain cultural standards brings suicide on the fringe of consciousness

... and escape. The self becomes a burden, and our strongest motivation is to avoid self-awareness . One radical solution, that ... (tendency to cope with adversity by mental or behavioral avoidance, Carver, Scheier, & Weintraub, 1989). If the reasoning based on ... / more

Anger Management

... & Geertjes S. (2010). The art of anger: Reward context turns avoidance responses to anger-related objects into approach.   ... W. (2010, 29 June). Lance old, but he does have one big motivation: Armstrong is looking to avenge last year's Tour humiliation by ... / more

Culture and Health Psychology: Insights from a Socio-Cultural Perspective

... constructs that distinguish cultures include uncertainty avoidance, masculinity , and power distance ( Hofstede , 1980), ... success or preventing failure: Cultural differences in motivation by positive and negative role models . Personality and Social ... / more

When Nothing Bad Happens but You’re Still Unhappy: Boredom in Romantic Relationships

... with highly arousing emotions and relationship  approach motivation  goals. That is, intimacy and passion are both emotional ... one part of relationship boredom; another—approach and avoidance motivation—will be elaborated next. Hedonism refers to the pursuit ... / more

Embodied Persuasion: How the Body Can Change our Mind

... more positively than information presented during an avoidance behavior (e.g., pushing down on a table top surface;  Cacioppo, ... The body is likely to serve as a simple cue when motivation and ability to think are constrained. For example,  Cacioppo, et ... / more

Complementing Individualism with The Social Identity Approach

... past, and group-based anger and fear motivate approach and avoidance of the out-group , respectively. It seems, then, that we have ... impulse, and chaos . Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 17, 237 – 307. Zimbardo, P. (2007).  From Heavens to ... / more

Altruism: Myth or Reality?

... ,  Mandeville , and many others, altruism—motivation with the ultimate goal of increasing another’s welfare—is a ... hypothesis : aversive- arousal reduction, punishment avoidance, and reward gain. Advocates of the empathy-altruism hypothesis ... / more

Revisiting the past can make the present a better place: The psychological and social benefits of nostalgia

... T., & Sedikides, C. (in press). Attachment -related avoidance and the social and agentic content of nostalgic memories. Journal of ... Mover: Nostalgia regulates approach and avoidance motivation . Emotion. Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. ... / more

Does it matter if people are aware of their implicit racial bias?

... bias responded by engaging in a behavior called information avoidance—they chose not to see their test results (Howell, et al., 2013). ... Plant, E., & Devine, P. G. (1998). Internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice . Journal of Personality and ... / more

What career should I choose? How self-stereotyping can influence career decisions

... perceptions, (2) stereotype threat , and (3) backlash avoidance. Lack of fit perceptions. When choosing a study area or ... can help to make supervisors aware of a person’s career motivation and can animate the supervisor to give career support. It can also ... / more