Although research suggests that people derive more happiness from buying life experiences than material objects, almost no studies have examined how people actually feel while consuming real-world experiential and material purchases. In the present research, we provided the first examination of people’s momentary happiness while consuming these purchases. Participants were randomly assigned to ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Smoking-specific experiential avoidance is related to the maintenance of cigarette smoking. However, it is unclear whether sustained smoking abstinence is associated with subsequent reductions in smoking-specific experiential avoidance. METHODS Daily smokers (n = 149) underwent a cessation attempt in the context of a 4-session smoking cessation treatment trial. Parti...

Using data from three household surveys in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and India, this report compares two commonly used measures of household food insecurity: a measure of caloric consumption (reported undernourishment) and an experiential measure. In the second measure, a single affirmative response to whether the household experienced certain conditions or behaviors due to insufficient food design...

objective: in recent years, there has been a rising interest in cognitive behavioral research to explore the role of emotion regulation in the development and maintenance of mental disorders and resiliency against or recovery from them. particularly, different strategies people use to regulate their emotions may have more important role in emotional disorders including depression. the aim of th...

Objective: The current study seeks to investigate the mechanisms through which mindfulness is related to social anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample of adults by examining whether experiential avoidance and specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies (rumination, catastrophizing, and reappraisal) mediate associations between mindfulness and social anxiety symptoms. Methods: Statistical p...

The paper presents a pioneering investigation of qualitative empirical findings of experiential responses to ecolodge accommodation as a place of experience consumption from the guest perspective. It identifies the key satisfying experiential dimensions; and subsequently to recommend strategies for developing sustainable quality ecolodge experience strategies that arise from the key experientia...