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approach-avoidance conflict

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approach-avoidance conflict,
a conflict resulting from the presence of a single goal or desire that is both desirable and undesirable. See also conflict.

approach-avoidance conflict
Psychology An intrapersonal conflict characterized by both attraction towards and repulsion from something


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