You’re reading your child’s IEP, evaluation report, or behavior plan and suddenly you’re stuck on a phrase that feels ...

Adolescent girls who consistently avoid looking at negative or critical social cues may be at a higher risk for developing ...

Most of us know about the “fight or flight” response, the body’s built-in survival instinct. But that framework leaves out ...

Patterns that look self-defeating often have a deeper logic, according to a new psychological analysis by Charlie ...

What looks like a simple pile of stuff is often a dense knot of memory, identity, and unfinished decisions inside the brain.

Individuals with chronic opioid use, whether addicted or not, show heightened learning from negative reinforcement, suggesting that avoidance behavior may underlie both the development and persistence ...

Self-harming and self-sabotaging behaviors, from skin picking to ghosting people, all stem from evolutionary survival ...

Some AI models appear to show a resistance to being shut off. Are they developing a survival drive? Or is it all in how they prioritize tasks? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Facial expressions play a fundamental role in social communication. While it is well established that others’ expressions influence our behavior—such as approaching a smiling person or avoiding an ...

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the penultimate episode of Task on HBO. Jamie McShane wasn’t always recruited to play a bad guy. Early on in his nearly 30-year career, McShane says he ...

Depression in young patients is associated with difficulty in taking action to avoid something unpleasant, while the ability to withdraw and not act remains intact, a study suggests. Ryan Tomm, PhD ...

Summary: Depression specifically impairs the ability to learn how to actively avoid unpleasant events, though it does not affect avoidance behavior once learned. Researchers tested 465 participants ...