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Avoidance Behavior

Known as: avoidance behaviour, Behaviors, Avoidance, Behavior, Avoidance 
Act of choosing to move away from a potentially negative stimulus or situation.
National Institutes of Health

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AgoraphobiaAvoidance LearningEscape ReactionNegative Reinforcement

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Behavior

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2012
2012
A field test for host fruit odour discrimination and avoidance behaviour for Rhagoletis pomonella flies in the western United States
Prezygotic isolation due to habitat choice is important to many models of speciation‐with‐gene‐flow. Habitat choice is usually… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Anaemia adjusts the aerobic physiology of snapper (Pagrus auratus) and modulates hypoxia avoidance behaviour during oxygen choice presentations
SUMMARY The effect of altered oxygen transport potential on behavioural responses to environmental hypoxia was tested… 
Review
2011
Review
2011
Individual Differences in Women’s Rape Avoidance Behaviors
Rape can exact severe psychological, physical, and reproductive costs on women, and likely was a recurrent adaptive problem over… 
1995
1995
Complex avoidance behaviour and its neurochemical regulation in the land snail Cepaea nemoralis.
1995
1995
Effects of large Saduria entomon (Isopoda) on spatial distribution of their small S. entomon and Monoporeia affinis (Amphipoda) prey
We performed laboratory experiments to investigate the effects of predator avoidance and numerical effects of predation on… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Effects of raclopride on exploratory locomotor activity, treadmill locomotion, conditioned avoidance behaviour and catalepsy in rats: behavioural profile comparisons between raclopride, haloperidol…
Raclopride, a new potential antipsychotic agent blocking central dopamine (D2) receptors, was found to suppress exploratory… 
1983
1983
Comparative effects of exposure to high-energy electrons and gamma radiation on active avoidance behaviour.
The effect of two types of ionizing radiation was examined on active avoidance behaviour. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained… 
1983
1983
Corticotrophin releasing factor is more potent than some corticotrophin-related peptides in affecting passive avoidance behaviour in rats
1975
1975
Effects of N-hydroxyethyl-pyrrolidinium methiodide, a choline analogue, on passive avoidance behaviour in mice
Highly Cited
1963
Highly Cited
1963
Inhibitory effect of preirradiation saccharin habituation on conditioned avoidance behavior.
A total of 40 male and female albino rats were assigned to four treatment groups with 10 subjects in each group. Three groups… 
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