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A study entitled The Aversion Project details attempts to "cure" gays in the army allegedly under the supervision of chief psychiatrist at Voortrekkerhoogte, Aubrey Levine, using hormone drugs and electric-shock treatment, termed "aversion therapy."
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The Israeli onslaught was a kind of Aversion Therapy that addressed only the negative behavior issues.
Archive 2009-02-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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The Israeli onslaught was a kind of Aversion Therapy that addressed only the negative behavior issues.
Palestinian Dysfunction And Western Enablers « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009
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The Israeli onslaught was a kind of Aversion Therapy that addressed only the negative behavior issues.
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Ashanti dangles from Light Waves' sculpty Ballerina's fingers in "Aversion"
Ashanti LeShelle's photography articulates her dreams and jump-starts our imagination Bettina Tizzy 2008
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Ashanti dangles from Light Waves' sculpty Ballerina's fingers in "Aversion"
Archive 2008-02-01 Bettina Tizzy 2008
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The Israeli onslaught was a kind of Aversion Therapy that addressed only the negative behavior issues.
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In his conclusion, Kahneman rightly observes that a more 'precise vocabulary' about the heuristics and biases of decision making -- the 'Endowment Effect' and 'Loss Aversion' and all the mental tools that shape the judgments we make -- can help us make smarter choices.
David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011
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Mental shortcuts that Kahneman describes, like The Availability Heuristic and Loss Aversion and Optimism Bias, which were revealed in research about decision making that had an economic focus Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for this work, help us combine slow conscious thinking with faster gut instinct to make choices about money or risk or politics or lots of other things.
David Ropeik: Thinking, Fast and Slow... About Staying Alive -- What's Missing From Kahneman's Classic David Ropeik 2011
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The Constant Risk Aversion Utility Functions Demonstration by Seth Chandler is interesting because it requires Mathematica to solve a second-order differential equation symbolically in real time whenever the parameters are changed, to plot utility functions that exhibit constant risk aversion under the Arrow-Pratt measure.
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