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The resolution rule from the two-gradient model of approach-avoidance conflict was extended to situations requiring a continuous response measure. College students recommended whether or not someone should bet on each position in problems representing nine different types of approach-avoidance conflicts. The recommendations ranged continuously from +50 to −50. The results showed that the strength of the students’ responses at each point in a conflict was proportional to the net strength of the competing tendencies at that point.
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Yelen, D.R. The resolution of approach-avoidance conflict: II. Continuous response measures. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 23, 391–393 (1985). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330193
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