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aversive system

aversive system

neuroticism as represented by an individual’s relative sensitivity to negative or punishing (i.e., aversive) cues and stimuli and his or her processes for avoiding them. Compare appetitive system. See also behavioral inhibition system. [proposed by British psychologist Jeffrey Alan Gray (1934–2004)]

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