How to Use aversive in a Sentence

aversive

adjective

• The first one is associated with a state of mind that is aversive.
  — John Williams, New York Times, 16 July 2017
• This part of the brain plays an important role in avoiding aversive outcomes.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
• The researchers then measured the rats’ aversive responses such as mouth movements, sticking out the tongue or licking paws.
  — Chris Gorski, Discover Magazine, 28 Jan. 2023
• Through past experiences with people, dogs could come to view the angry expression as aversive.
  — Julie Hecht, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• This would be predicted if the dogs recognized an angry face as an aversive stimulus.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2015
• A day later, a rat injected with harmless saline remembers the aversive shock, steering clear of the triangular zone.
  — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 12 May 2012
• Like thirst, hunger or pain, loneliness is an aversive state that animals seek to resolve, improving their long-term survival.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 May 2016
• Change tends to cause anxiety for people, and anxiety is an aversive reaction to some sort of stimulus.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Feb. 2023
• Misophonia is an aversive reaction to specific sounds, often in the form of annoyance that turns quickly to anger.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 Sep. 2019
• Earlier studies had shown that specific nerve pathways leading to a structure known as the ventral tegmental area (VTA) were important for the aversive nature of the foot shock.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 27 Aug. 2019
• With some 60 likenesses by a notoriously testy, people-aversive artist-rebel, this is the largest gathering of its kind in a century.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2018
• But technology has overcome the neutrino’s aversive nature and opened up a new window onto the universe.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
• One study found that dogs trained with aversive methods looked at their owners less frequently than dogs trained with positive reinforcement.
  — Linda Lombardi, chicagotribune.com, 1 Oct. 2019
• When most people look at pictures designed to elicit an aversive reaction, such as of a cockroach, the brain’s insula lights up with activity.
  — Helen Thomson, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• When a panel of people smelled the collection T-shirts, panelists found the body odor of people whose immune systems had been activated by the endotoxin to be more aversive than normal body odor.
  — Sarah Everts, Time, 21 July 2021
• Activating cells in the mice’s amygdalae was enough to make neutral-tasting water either appealing or aversive.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 30 May 2018
• Because the brain finds uncertainty aversive, the emotional realm will respond to unpredictability with a signal.
  — WIRED, 11 Sep. 2022
• The prefrontal cortex is involved in decision making; the dorsal periaqueductal gray area processes painful and aversive events.
  — Cody A. Siciliano, The Conversation, 21 Nov. 2019
• The take-home message is that if someone smells aversive, others may avoid being in close proximity, which is a pretty reasonable strategy for avoiding potential infections.
  — Sarah Everts, Time, 21 July 2021
• The brain circuitry processing rewarding and aversive stimuli is hypothesized to be at the core of motivated behavior.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2011
• Difficult tasks, and particularly tasks involving heavy mental investment, come with an aversive experience of mental effort.
  — David Badre, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2021
• Without QoE visibility, network operators can’t detect problems and take aversive action before disgruntled customers bombard their customer service lines (or simply leave for a competitor).
  — Yaakov Stein, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• Gamma-undecalactone generally smells fatty and aversive.
  — Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024