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The article delves into the concept of library anxiety, defining it as the fear of utilizing library resources, tracing its history, and exploring its impact on students' academic success. Topics include the origins of library anxiety, its measurement through scales like e Library Anxiety Scale and Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale, and efforts by librarians to alleviate it through information literacy courses and understanding its psychological roots.

The article discusses the importance of tailoring treatment to clients' sensory-processing patterns in maximizing their communication outcomes. Topics include the role being played by sensory regulation in language development, four categories of occupational therapist Winnie Dunn's sensory processing framework (DSPF), and how DSPF explores sensory processing.

The article reports on the management of conflict within organizations. It highlights structural and personal factors as potential causes of organizational conflict. It explores the different orientations suggested by Kenneth Thomas in the book "Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology" on how to resolve conflict including avoidance, competition, and collaboration.

The article offers information on negative impacts of information overload and discusses the benefits of information avoidance. Topics discussed include incentive to avoid information as well as theoretical and empirical research on reasons why people avoid information; avoidance of easy accessible information; and information avoidance helps to promote media bias.

Focuses on the factors affecting initial resistant attitude of individual towards change. Minimization of resistant behavior; List of reasons for resistance to ideas and methods in an industrial environment; Importance of motivational forces to overcome resistant force.

The article provides the results from a study on people who avoid advertisements. Conducted by Microsoft and Starcom, the study found certain demographics to find advertisements annoying. There are passive avoiders and active avoiders. Both groups' habits make them hard for marketers to reach by conventional means. Advertising needs to become more relevant, creative, and customized.

Discusses the commercial avoidance by television and radio audiences on intrusive advertisements in the media in the U.S. Importance of worrying about intrusive advertising in the media; Paradox of commercial avoidance with the aggregate created by the popularity of television; Difference of commercial avoidance between television and print media.

Focuses on the use of avoidance behavior in product development. Causes of failure; Challenging of the conventional wisdom.