Experiential avoidance can be defined as the tendency to avoid contact with unwanted internal experiences. Current conceptualizations of pathological hoarding appear broadly consistent with an experiential avoidant model. Eighty participants in four groups, namely hoarding disorder (HD) without comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), HD with comorbid OCD, non-hoarding OCD, and healthy con...

INTRODUCTION The attention to experiential education within the academic pharmacy and professional practice communities has increased dramatically in recent years. Some of the added attention has been in response to changes in accreditation requirements as promulgated by the Accreditation Council on Pharmacy Education (ACPE) in the Accreditation Standards and Guidelines for the Professional Pro...

System troubleshooters keep important organizational systems operating. This study examines factors influencing system troubleshooter trust in their supervisors, contrasting experiential and non-experiential factors. Traditional research suggests that trust forms through interactional experience. Recent research indicates that initial interpersonal trust develops through non-experiential factor...

This cross-sectional study investigated the mediatory role of experiential avoidance in the relationship between perceived stress and alexithymia with mental health. We enrolled 440 students (age 18-30 years) at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences through stratified random sampling method. The study tools were demographic checklist, GHQ-28, Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 and Perceived Stres...

The rapid development of the Internet has facilitated the proliferation of online stores. How businesses can seize this enormous business opportunity and survive intense competition is an important issue. Based on strategic experiential modules (SEMs), including sense, feel, think, act, and relate, this study attempted to explore the type of experience preferred by consumers of lativ, a well-kn...

Despite their age and prevalence, abstract games are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of games and meaning. In this paper I offer experiential metaphors as a critical method applicable to all games, particularly abstract games. To do this I introduce structural metaphors, image schemata and experiential gestalts to explain how experiential metaphors function. I then compare this met...

Customers' experiential value is based on holistic experience customers would have when they interact with a product/service. Experiential value is defined as " relativistic preference characterizing a subject's experience with some object " (Holbrook, 1994). Internet is characterized for interactivity and it should have a role in customers' experiential value. Therefore, this research investig...

National Institute of Mental Health grant MH-63972, and NSF grant BCS-0446637. We would like to thank Malte Elson, Christopher Morris, and Helena Yardley for their help in collecting data. Acquiring experiential traces 2 Abstract Two experiments investigated the activation of perceptual representations of referent objects during word processing. In both experiments, participants learned to asso...

OBJECTIVES Eating-related disinhibition (i.e., a tendency to overeat in response to various stimuli) is associated with weight gain and poorer long-term weight loss success. Theoretically, experiential avoidance (i.e., the desire or attempts to avoid uncomfortable internal experiences), may predispose individuals to developing negative reinforcement eating expectancies (i.e., the belief that ea...

This chapter includes material from several other chapters and articles as well as new information. Cognitive-experiential self-theory 2 p. 3. Cognitive-experiential self-theory 3 Cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST) is a broadly integrative theory of personality that is compatible with a variety of other theories, including psychodynamic theories, learning theories, phenomenological self-...