ArticleScientific reports2017
Vigour in active avoidance.
Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- A Causal Role for Gastric Rhythm in Human Disgust Avoidance.Current biology : CB · 2021Trial
- Latent subdimensions of anxiety and depression differentially influence exertion of effort in pursuit of reward versus avoidance of threat.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- The Tap-to-Safety Task: A Novel fMRI Paradigm Assessing Repetitive Threat-Neutralization.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- Acute stress promotes effort mobilization for safety-related goals.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Latent cause inference during extinction learning in trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD.Psychological medicine · 2022Article
- The effect of frontoparietal paired associative stimulation on decision-making and working memory.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2019Article
- Computation in Psychotherapy, or How Computational Psychiatry Can Aid Learning-Based Psychological Therapies.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Article
- Expected Free Energy Formalizes Conflict Underlying Defense in Freudian Psychoanalysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Review
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Abstract
It would be maladaptive to learn about catastrophes by trial and error alone. Investment in planning and effort are necessary. Devoting too many resources to averting disaster, however, can impair quality of life, as in anxiety and paranoia. Here, we developed a novel task to explore how people adjust effort expenditure (vigor) so as to avoid negative consequences. Our novel paradigm is immersive, enabling us to measure vigor in the context of (simulated) disaster. We found that participants (N = 118) exerted effort to avoid disaster-associated states, adjusting their effort expenditure according to the baseline probability of catastrophe, in agreement with theoretical predictions. Furthermore, negative subjective emotional states were associated both with threat level and with increasing vigor in the face of disaster. We describe for the first time effort expenditure in the context of irreversible losses, with important implications for disorders marked by excessive avoidance.
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