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%AVERSION REACTION AVOIDANCE 850510
Often people fall in love with each other due to
personal attributes that they see in each other, although
the perceptions may not be conscious. Other times people
avoid each other in aversion reactions because of
objectionable attributes that they perceive in each
other's behavior. Not so often recognized is the
avoidance of each other due to absences of behavior
patterns. It is harder to consciously perceive the
absence of an essential, than to consciously perceive the
presence of an irritant. Yet the absence of an essential
is a reasonable ground for an aversive reaction. We may
reasonably avoid people who fail to be understanding,
sympathetic, listeners, forgiving, supportive, humble,
tolerant, respectful, thoughtful, generous, etc.
These considerations are important in understanding
the ways in which students are attracted to and are
aversive towards various teachers and professions. The
behavior of students towards individual teachers and
professors often has only individual significance. It may
also have very broad implications; e.g., when there is a
systematic pattern within a profession which makes a large
majority of the members of the teachers in a profession
elicit aversive reactions of avoidance among creative
students who might otherwise enter and enliven the
profession.
A systematic pattern of avoidance of professors of a
profession generates a situation in which the members of
the profession are unlikely to have the power to correct
the situation. The pattern of avoidance deprives them of
feed-back which is essential to the professional leaders
coming to an understanding of the nature of the situation.
In ignorance of what is occasioning the avoidance the
leaders are unable to take intelligent steps to reduce the
occasion for aversive reactions and so improve the rate of
feed-back.
The situation is especially ironic when the source of
the problem is the lack of feed-back from the professors
to students. Such a lack/absence is harder to recognize
that would be the presence of obvious objectionable
behavior. It is tragic when a profession's highest ideals
inhibit the operation of feed-back loops by which the best
of the present generation of professional leaders are
alienated from the best of the potential future leaders of
the profession.
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