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LIT-1498: Behavior as information: “If I avoid, then there must be a danger”

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StatusUnavailable — filed 2026-10-24 from the owner's exchange of 2026-10-23/24, shared at https://chatgpt.com/share/6adc1ece-bb28-83e9-a8f6-cadf0f8b7113, where it is cited at turn U15; a reading was attempted on 2026-10-24 and failed on availability: no lawful full text was found. The article is closed at Elsevier. Unpaywall, OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar list no open copy, Europe PMC and PubMed Central hold none, the University of Messina's IRIS record (hdl 11570/2424621) has no file, and the Utrecht University research portal refused this client (403). Web searches found no preprint or accepted manuscript. One copy was found and not used: the publisher's typeset PDF on the website of the Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva, Rome, the first two authors' institute. Its own cover sheet says it is an "Author's personal copy" that may not be posted to "personal, institutional or third party websites", so it is not a lawful open copy. Only the cover sheet was seen, and the file was deleted unread. It stays Unavailable until a copy is supplied, through library access or a request to the authors. No NOTE is filed.
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Tagspsychopathology-and-treatment, cognition

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Gangemi, A., Mancini, F. & van den Hout, M. (2012). Behavior as information: “If I avoid, then there must be a danger”. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry 43(4): 1032–1038. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.04.005.

Not read. The summary is drawn from the abstract or from what the work is standardly cited for. A reading should check it first.

Why this is here

The exchange cited it at turn U15 for behaviour as information: avoiding something is read back as evidence that it is dangerous. The abstract matches.

Noted 2026-10-24. Not read: no lawful copy was found (see the status note). De Kleine et al. (LIT-1490, NOTE-1123) cite this paper for behaviour-as-information. They offer it as one possible reason why patients avoided a safety cue, the act of avoiding giving the cue a threat meaning, and they do not test it.

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