Avoidance responses can be reinforced when they prevent an aversive outcome or produce learned safety signals.

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Andreatta and colleagues provide controlled human evidence on learning processes in successful avoidance of an aversive outcome. Fisher and Urcelay provide human experimental evidence that trained response-produced safety signals can reinforce instrumental avoidance.

These studies do not show that every everyday coping pattern, including overwork, accommodation, reassurance-seeking, or control, is maintained through the same avoidance-learning mechanism.

The final Notes already impose this narrow boundary. The public claim should remain about avoidance learning rather than generalizing ‘relief reinforces the route’ to all Human OS patterns.

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