One can remember events and one facts: to an event (e.g. the barista's pouring my coffee this morning), needs have personally witnessed event. To a fact that barista was trained in Italy), it suffices learned from some other source. The distinction between event-directed (i.e. experiential) fact-directed (or propositional) attitudes is established philosophy, psychology, cognitive science also ...

This study investigated the relationship between experiential avoidance, coping and the recency and frequency of self-harm, in a community sample (N = 1332, aged 16-69 years). Participants completed online, self-report measures assessing self-harm, momentary affect, experiential avoidance and coping in response to a recent stressor. Participants who had self-harmed reported significantly higher...

This paper presents a craft in experiential teaching and an experiment embodied learning for peacebuilders change-makers. The theories, practices experiments are part of the postgraduate course Peace Mind. intention is to invite reader see awareness-based as tool that enables possibility evolve our humanness. Interdisciplinary abstract methodologies from Indigenous phenomenological philosophies...

Few studies have been conducted on psychological disorders other than post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war survivors. The aim of this study was to examine PTSD, social anxiety disorder (SAD), and major depressive disorder (MDD) and their associations with distress and quality of life in 174 Albanian civilian survivors of the Kosovo War. This included testing of conceptual models suggest...

Despite the clinically-significant association between perceived stress and smoking, there is little understanding of the mechanisms underlying this relation. The present study examined smoking-specific experiential avoidance as an explanatory mechanism linking perceived stress and smoking, including nicotine dependence, perceived barriers to cessation, and problems reported during past quit at...

In terms of prediction by Epstein's integrative theory of personality, cognitive-experiential self-theory (CEST), those people with experiential-intuitive cognitive style are more inclined to induce errors than the other people with analytical-rational cognitive style in the conjunction fallacy (two events that can occur together are seen as more likely than at least one of the two events). We ...

The primary objective of this study is to examine the experiential learning process of Japanese IT professionals, in order to investigate the nature of knowing. In this study we examined how IT professionals acquire job-related skills or expertise through experience. The semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 high-performing senior managers in consulting divisions and 14 managers in ...