aversion

The Latin word aversion arrived in Castilian as aversion. The concept refers to disgust, the disgust or the rejection that you feel before something or someone. For example: "I have an aversion to spiders: just think about them to make my skin crawl", "The government has an aversion to independent journalists", "Manuel never wants to formalize his sentimental ties because he suffers from commitment aversion".

Aversion can be understood as a endurance or one objection. A person can you say that you experience aversion to rudeness. This means that when you hear a bad word (or curse), or when you notice rude behavior, you get in a bad mood.

The first impulse that arises before the stimulus that produces aversion is to move away from it, be it a thing, a situation or a person. Depending on the case, violent attitudes may appear against them, and this can have consequences of varying severity, especially if the damage is received by a living being.

A food can also provoke aversion. As expressed in the previous paragraph, the rejection that characterizes this sensation leads us to move away from the negative stimulus, and in a case of this type the most natural solution is to expel food from the body.

In technical terms, we can say that aversion is a primary emotion, that is, one of the complex and automatic affective states that we cannot control and that help us to adapt to the environment, since they favor our reaction mechanism to stimuli. Other primary emotions are disgust, fear, love, sadness, and anger. In this context, some believe that aversion is the foundation of certain feelings, such as being hate and the apathy.

Who has aversion to flightsFor his part, he tries not to travel by plane or helicopter because of the unpleasant sensations he suffers in the air. The fact of flying causes him fear, uncertainty Y anxiety, and even causes physical discomfort. That is why the subject with aversion to flights prefers to travel by land or water.

It is known as aversion therapy to psychological or psychiatric treatment that aims to overcome an unwanted behavior by exposing the patient to the stimulus that triggers it and getting him to associate it with a sensation unpleasant. Depending on the problem to be solved, aversion can be achieved in different ways; for example, to combat alcoholism, alcohol can be mixed with emetic substances (which cause vomiting).

In the field of economy, the notion of risk aversion to refer to a type of behavior that investors and consumers adopt. The idea refers to the individual who chooses the offer that has a lower risk even when another offer with higher risk could give him a greater return or benefit.

Risk aversion can be found beyond the economic plane, since it is related to the psychology of people. A risk-averse person may choose to stay in a low-paying job with poor working conditions rather than quit to try to find a better job.

This concept can be understood through the expression better known bad than good to know, which is used to describe the decision of the person who out of fear of change She prefers to remain in her current situation, with the people around her, with her belongings and everything that characterizes her so far. While nothing assures us that the unknown is more appropriate than the known, we are likely to improve if we keep moving.