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Spence’s suggestion that high anxious individuals exhibit relatively less adaptation to threat or aversive forms of stimulation than low anxious individuals is examined and one of its implications for research is described. His suggestion is termed the differential adaptation hypothesis in the present paper.
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Castaneda, A. Anxiety and the differential adaptation hypothesis. Psychon Sci 1, 25–26 (1964). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342770
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