Editorial: Avoidance: From Basic Science to Psychopathology

As a means of coping, avoidance encompasses thoughts and efforts toward prevention of future aversive experiences and events. Avoidance has been and remains controversial. Avoidance is accepted as a construct in many areas of research, but is roundly disdained in others. Why is such a critical feature of coping both acknowledged as such, but almost reluctantly studied?

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2016-02-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00015PMID 26903831PMCID 4751251
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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