0 making someone feel a strong dislike for something, or making them not want to do it:
emotionally aversive images
aversive conditioning
Odours of parasitized males induce aversive responses in female mice.
Most of this work focuses on behavioral responses to potential threat or aversive stimuli, and the neural systems involved in withdrawal or harm avoidance.
In a second developmental step, normative differences in how boys and girls respond to challenge are amplified by chronic exposure to aversive family environments.
In addition, adolescents would show a relatively weaker engagement of the avoidant system in aversive conditions in the context of a goal-directed action.
If we feel rejected by a group we may respond with aversive behaviour, as children do when they feel rejected by their parents.
Adults with depression may even respond to pleasant stimuli as though the stimuli are aversive.
Aversive environmental conditions, as well as internal pathologies, at one stage of developoment may have consequences for adaptation at both that and later stages.
Pain is a sensory-motor feeling state with aversive motivational (hedonic) value.
