Mahavira

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

Stephen McCauley

I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to me in writing, probably because I believe people reveal themselves in how they deal with small details.

American Author

James Nesbitt

I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.

Irish Actor

Frans de Waal

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.

Dutch Scientist

Letitia James

Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.

American Public Servant

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

French Writer

Patty Jenkins

Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.

American Director

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.

French Novelist

Gregg Wallace

Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.

English Celebrity

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

Finnish Musician

Aversion often carries a strong emotional feeling, more intense than just not liking something.

Emotional Weight

Use 'aversion' to politely express refusal or dislike without being direct.

Subtle Refusal

Aversion suggests someone might avoid the disliked activity or object altogether.

Behavioral Hint

In psychology, aversion is tied to avoidance behavior and can be linked to fear or trauma.

Psychological Context

Psychological aversion is more intense than dislike and can significantly impact life choices.

Beyond Dislike

Understanding aversion is important to comprehend treatments like aversion therapy.

Aversion Therapy

In medicine, an aversion can be a physical reaction to substances, not just a preference.

Medical Sensitivity

A medical aversion may need professional attention and can't just be 'powered through'.

Serious Reactions

Medical aversion is not about disliking the taste; it's about adverse reactions.

Difference From Dislike

 for a potential love interest, there's a good chance that you'll be viewed more favorably in the future, even if you didn't prepare the delicious food. And who wouldn't want the love of their life drooling over them? But life is not just bell rings and salivation. There's also a dark side to this type of learning, called "taste aversion".

Pavlovian reactions...

 Now, behavioral economists might refer to this sort of thing as loss aversion We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours. We have no such aversion towards copying what other people have, because we do that nonstop. So here's the sort of equation we're looking at.

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 seem to be over the coronavirus let's talk about some of these images that we have seen pictures of people around the country in large locations at bars on beaches without masks many people seem to just have an aversion to wearing masks even though you and other experts have said that

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 via cosmic ray collisions. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world. Biologists should avoid release of potentially devastating genetically modified pathogens. And by the way, our special aversion

Martin Rees: Can we...

 So many activities in health care are hidden, they're unwitnessed, but doctors are social animals, and they perform better when they see what other doctors do. So social influence works in health care. So does tying it to notions of regret or to loss aversion.

Why it's so hard to make...

 to see if they can inhabit this planet. A lot of this comes from the fact that the industrial city in America was such a trauma that we developed this tremendous aversion for the whole idea of the city, city life, and everything connected with it.

James Kunstler: How bad...

 I transferred to a new treatment center that understood my aversions, my trauma, and my social anxiety, and they knew how to treat it, and I got the help I finally needed. And after 18 months of hard work, I went on to do incredible things.

My Inner Life with...

 and how it manifests both explicitly and implicitly. But this situation, this aversion to a bag full of pink stuff, forced me to explore my rejection of highly feminized things in my child's world. I realized that I was reinforcing sexism

What it's like to be a...

 the rest of it will do nothing -- kids, coin, doesn't matter. People think loss aversion will have a small effect. What actually happened? Sending a text reminder once a week helps a lot. Good news!

How to change your...

 immune system against common bow-bow being pro teens and in this way we can create an aversion to eating echo and friendly food and we can do this for example by having meat patches kind of

Aversion

A strong dislike or unwillingness towards something.

Often appears as...

In psychology, a natural or acquired tendency to avoid specific situations or stimuli.

Often appears as...

In medicine, a negative reaction to a specific substance, especially drugs.

Often appears as...

Emotional Weight

Subtle Refusal

Behavioral Hint

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