There is a little more concreteness to it on the downside".
All I cared about was the firm reality of her breaths on my chest, the concreteness of her slipping into slumber as I sang my three lullabies.
The opposite forms of manifestation of the concreteness effects on the two major form classes were attributed to task requirements.
According to construal level theory, image proximity can be conceptualized as a degree of image concreteness depending on whether the image appears to be near or far.
This study examined the ERP correlates of concreteness effects on single Chinese characters of different form classes, including nouns, verbs and adjectives, in a go/no-go semantic categorization task.
That's not what most of us have anymore, but it is impossible to read this passage without thinking of the inherited vigor of English literature — the sheer, knotty concreteness of it, sometimes rude, always robust — from Chaucer on down.
Studies which have used experimental manipulations to increase concrete thinking have demonstrated concurrent increases in the concreteness of problem solving plans and autobiographical memory specificity (Watkins and Moulds 2005; Watkins and Teasdale 2001, 2004), and previous studies have reported a similar effect of a course of MBCT on the autobiographical memory (Williams et al. 2000).
A graduate student of psychology rated the concreteness of the participants' answers from the interview transcripts on the scale developed by Stöber and colleagues (Stöber & Borkovec, 2002; Stöber et al., 2002), which consists of five categories: 1 (abstract), 2 (somewhat abstract), 3 (neither nor), 4 (somewhat concrete) and 5 (concrete).
As an example of (i), depressive rumination is characterized by an abstract level of identification since it is focused on meanings, consequences, implications, and "why" questions, and involves reduced concreteness of thinking (Watkins & Moulds, 2005a, 2007).
