Relief is often discussed as one concept, but when asking people to think of scenarios where they experienced relief, about half thought of near-miss scenarios, and the other half thought of task-completion … See more

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Others have also suggested that relief can reinforce avoidance, by rewarding the escape from a scary situation, relief might help create … See more

It has been found that rats sigh with relief. Because rats are social animals, the researchers suggested that maybe sighing with relief function as a social signal to other rats. We do not know whether sighing is a social signal, however, and when asked in an … See more