GuySrinivasan comments on Plan while your ugh field is down - Less Wrong

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 24 January 2014 08:34:46PM 2 points [-]

When I think Ugh Field, I am referring to a pattern of mental avoidance that develops sometimes because of anxiety, sometimes because of disgust, sometimes because of hopelessness... Maybe Ugh Fields my brain creates from different root negative feeling causes are sufficiently different, and calling them by the same name obscures something very important?

Comment author: jsalvatier 25 January 2014 12:34:11AM 0 points [-]

Hmm, perhaps it just seems that way to me is that anxiety is by far the most common reason for Avoidance behaviors for me (this also holds for my roommate). Also, I think the link between anxiety and avoidance is fairly well known to psychologists.