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The remaining items deal with how avoidant a person is in their relationship.

They were more likely than those in the avoidant group to have had sexual experience with females.

Those who knocked up engaged in an approach action, not an avoidant one.

About 1% of the general population has avoidant personality disorder.

When avoidant individuals do provide support, they tend to be more controlling.

In this case there is history of previous significant back pain and avoidant behaviour thereafter.

As with all avoidant defenses, these attitudes have been set up to hold off catastrophe.

But, he is obviously socially avoidant and anxious in social situations.

"Engaging in an avoidant action seems to create the sense that the bad luck is being pushed away," she said.

That's because the policy world is a supermagnet for people who are emotionally avoidant.

Avoidant couples seem to appeal to their basic shared philosophy of marriage.

This type of anxiety can be crippling to the affected and may lead to avoidant behavior.

This socially avoidant part of his personality would have caused him to withdraw from the trial.

There are three major attachment styles: anxious, avoidant and secure.

"People with specific fears tended to become more avoidant."

Hurt, wary, and avoidant, they would like to get close to others, but not too close.

Children with avoidant attachment demonstrate an indifference towards the parent.

Avoidant personality disorder types usually won't get involved with other people unless they're completely sure of acceptance.

Once the avoidant behavior is no longer reinforced, the individual exits the positive feedback loop.

Insecure children, particularly avoidant children, are especially vulnerable to family risk.

At this time, those include avoidant, obsessive-compulsive, and dependent personality disorders.

The avoidant personality has been described in several sources as far back as the early 1900s, although it was not so named for some time.

Over time I developed other conditions including severe depression, potential alcoholism and avoidant personality disorder.

Our society is avoidant, in a way.

Next we tested whether avoidant movements would have the same effect in situations free from the baggage of superstition.