avoidant personality disorder

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avoidant personality disorder

n.
A personality disorder characterized by fear of rejection or disapproval in social situations, feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to criticism.
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'This type of avoidance behaviour is an expression of stress and anxiety,' said Leri.
"This type of disease avoidance behaviour is increasingly evident in animals, and so leads us to believe it is evolutionarily very ancient.
We call this avoidance behaviour," says Professor Cooper.
Rear-End Collision Avoidance Behaviour Model Development Based on Deceleration Pattern.
Lower taxes lead to less avoidance behaviour and greater growth.
Free-operant avoidance behaviour by rats after reinforcer revaluation using opioid agonists and D amphetamine.
"The study also included western university professors who had good vitamin D levels because they go biking and spend time outdoors so the sun avoidance behaviour was not prevalent," she said.
An experimental analysis of obsessive-compulsive checking as avoidance behaviour
Little correlation between the finger-to-floor test and fear avoidance behaviour related to physical activity was found (p Less than 0.05).
Nigel Lewis, representing Ramshaw, said a major symptom of PTSD was avoidance behaviour but Mr Jones had led numerous campaigns and written a book.
One noteworthy finding was that escape/ avoidance behaviour was not correlated with any of the pain dimensions evaluated, despite this being an important component in the fear avoidance model (Leeuw et al., 2007), which may indicate that despite the intensity and severity of pain and the limitations it may cause in the life of patients, the latter do not adopt escape/avoidance behaviour.
According to AK Vorrat, user avoidance behaviour can explain this phenomenon - ie users tend to resort to internet cafes, wireless access points, anonymisation services, public telephones and unregistered prepaid phone cards to avoid the recording of sensitive information.
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