Evidence for the interchangeability of an avoidance behavior and a negative occasion setter |
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| Authors: | Declercq Mieke De Houwer Jan |
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| Institution: | Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. miekee.declercq@ugent.be |
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| Abstract: | Recent research on avoidance behavior provided evidence that such behavior can function as a negative occasion setter. We
tested this hypothesis further by investigating whether the modulatory function of a stimulus occasion setter transfers selectively
to a relation previously modulated by an avoidance behavior, and whether the modulatory function of an avoidance behavior
transfers selectively to a relation previously modulated by a stimulus occasion setter. The three experiments reported in
this article provided evidence to support this hypothesis. Furthermore, the results of Experiment 1 suggested that the presence
of counterconditioning trials is not a necessary condition for an avoidance behavior to function as a negative occasion setter.
All three reported experiments support the occasionsetting account of avoidance behavior. |
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