0 making someone feel a strong dislike for something, or making them not want to do it: --
aversive conditioning
emotionally aversive images
We could have used greater concentrations of the material, but we knew that greater strengths of the solution were aversive, not attractive, to male monkeys.
Thus, fearful expressions may act as unconditioned aversive stimuli to encourage conspecifics to avoid the object/action that elicited the expression.
Nattering was the probability that the parent responded with aversive behavior, regardless of the child's behavior.
Maternal depression and sibling antisocial behavior increase the frequency of aversive events experienced by a child.
A neuroscience account of aversive conditioning might refer to the amygdala and temporal cortex and perhaps the role of neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine.
Indeed, more robust activity in the amygdala often accompanies the presentation of aversive stimuli that are more arousing than the corresponding appetitive stimuli.
Primary among these functions is to signal to caretakers the existence of aversive stimuli.
Pain is a sensory-motor feeling state with aversive motivational (hedonic) value.
