aversive conditioning.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

But unconscious discrimination - what psychologists call aversive racism - has stayed fairly constant.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

The treatment is known as aversive therapy.    From Wordnik.com.  [FOXNews.com] Reference

This is a strictly aversive understanding of fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-30] Reference

She made her usual aversive detour-and then stopped.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wizard Of London]

Octopi 'teach' one another to avoid aversive stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Integral Mind] Reference

I do think she is too focused tested and risk aversive.    From Wordnik.com.  [The problem with a woman running for President.] Reference

"Highly aversive warning images should be selected," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cigarette pack warnings scarier in other countries] Reference

While jackals are wolf - and dog-aversive naturally, so are coyotes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Controversial origins of the domestic dog] Reference

Simply because most people are not risk takers and are in fact, risk aversive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Felicia C. Sullivan: Interview: Entrepreneur Jane Wurwand, CEO of Dermalogica] Reference

The problem with the original Huck Finn isn't the N-word but with our own aversive racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mikhail Lyubansky: A Few Words In Defense of the N-Word, in the Novels of Mark Twain] Reference

Activities in anxiously watch ecomustine ir acute econochlor this study econopred aversive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy: Iraq Is "In The Hands Of Other People"] Reference

Hillary is now catering to the aversive racists in this country whether she knows it or not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Schneider: Clinton, Obama win each other's voters] Reference

Depression is the necessary aversive step between the normal state and the euphoric near death state.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogging About Anti-Anxiety Meds] Reference

And because their inefficient studying is aversive, they do as little of it as they can get away with.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Leibow: The Number One Cause of College Unhappiness] Reference

Every damned room has something in it that would scare off someone who was already in an aversive mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [Do you need to call in a consultant to make your home "relationship ready"?] Reference

Banks want their customers to succeed but are risk-aversive and overly cautious (but who can blame them)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Grow Business » Raising Capital for Your Business: Strategies and Resources] Reference

And I wasn't aversive to it, because I was like, oh, three weddings, that sounds like a celebration of.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2005] Reference

Others claim that what may look like prosocial behavior may instead be a way of eliminating aversive stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Cognition] Reference

Studies show that failure to manage anxieties leads to aversive behavior, not good for risk-taking or growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry] Reference

President Barack Obama and his risk-aversive legislators are sending the wrong message to America's entrepreneurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Chautin: The Obama Administration is Discouraging Entrepreneurship by Preaching That Taking Risk is Evil] Reference

“Even Karl ‘Koley’ Kolseth would find a strikeout aversive,” they wrote, referring to the 1910s-era player.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Veers Into Left Field] Reference

In this book I address one of these issues: discipline, particularly the problem of the need for aversive measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Defending Bruno Bettelheim] Reference

People may find this sensory overload in their external world aversive and headphones reduce the auditory onslaught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jim Taylor: Alone in a Crowd, High-tech Style] Reference

Page 381, Volume 2 ing it; in any case, pleasure and pain are intimately related to appetitive and aversive processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE] Reference

Just because you consider yourself "liberal" or "progressive" doesn't mean you are automatically free of aversive racism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Words of advice for White would-be writers on race] Reference

What if Republicans are more likely to express instantly aversive reactions to Democrats than Democrats are for Republicans?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Eric Von Stroheim's 1924 epic Greed (which, perhaps greedily, ran nine hours, till aversive studio execs slashed it to two).    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Sigman: What's Your Poison?] Reference

Participants were randomly assigned to answer questions about either their own death or an aversive topic unrelated to death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Could understanding Terror Management Theory deter human aggression?] Reference

Cultivation is divided between subsistence crops and commercial crops with some risk-aversive preference for subsistence crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

A new Ice Age not aversive enough for you, try a sea-level rise of at least a couple of meters this century according to Hansen.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Spyros: 350 Is The Most Important Number of Your Lifetime] Reference

Well, basically, as you're saying there are mortgage companies and lenders that are going bankrupt and becoming more risk aversive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2007] Reference

You add this aversive therapy, which is what it is, essentially, and that could even worsen things both physically and emotionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2007] Reference

But here have been a lot of studies on aversive therapy, using some sort of painful, either physical or emotionally painful stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2007] Reference

In a very real sense, all human emotions can be thought of as forms of pleasure and pain: They are all either appealing or aversive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: What Are Emotions Anyway? (Part 4)] Reference

Not only that, but it forces a rationalising system, or what one might call a system of red herrings, to escape the aversive stimulus.    From Wordnik.com.  [thoughts on glenn greenwald & co] Reference

Observer subjects were told that their task would be to form and report an impression of how Elaine performs under aversive conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hanging] Reference

We experience aversive stimulation, the first representation of "the other," as frustrating threats to our existence, and become enraged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Wolson: America's Racism: Hatred of "The Other" in the 2008 Presidential Election] Reference

Cognitive dissonance is the theory that humans will rationalize even the most aversive conditions -- if they are forced to live with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wray Herbert: Cognitive Dissonance: Why We Rationalize Our Life Circumstances] Reference