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You might immediately be tempted to assign a valence to this. Surely "approach strategies" are the best!

Well, nothing is pure good and pure bad in psychology. These both play important roles for us! There are lots of reasonable situations in which we might want to avoid taking risks. But psychologists who study achievement -- and in particular, who persists in long-term achievement -- have been really interested in which strategies work best here.

We need another variable though