The comfort of approach: self-soothing effects of behavioral approach in response to meaning violations
People maintain systems of beliefs that provide them with a sense of belongingness, control, identity, and meaning, more generally. Recent research shows that when these beliefs are threatened a syndrome of negatively valenced arousal is evoked that motivates people to seek comfort in their ideologi...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4288123/ |