As noted earlier, setting more concrete, specific, and attainable sub-goals may facilitate the delivery of action by providing immediate incentives and guides for performance (Bandura & Schunk, 1981) and by reducing the delay of rewards, whereas distal goals may be too far removed in time to effectively mobilize effort or to direct what one does in the here-and-now.
Concreteness training involved repeated mental exercises designed to encourage more concrete and specific thinking about emotional events.
Still, he said, "I would welcome more concrete and specific information".
Model-driven software engineering requires the refinement of abstract models into more concrete, platform-specific ones.
In fact, in a situation where there are scores of failed attempts, the more concrete and specific the advice, the more it assumes that the people who didn't succeed are either naïve or unintelligent.
We tested the hypothesis that information about available savings measures that is presented in a more concrete and specific way is more likely to affect (stated) behavior than is more general information, and the data collected support this notion.
Objections to the evidence that evolution occurs tend to be more concrete and specific, often involving direct analysis of evolutionary biology's methods and claims.
The modifications provide an even more concrete and specific, falsifiable hypothesis about the referent mechanisms.
This hypothesis predicts that training dysphoric individuals to become more concrete and specific in their thinking would reduce depressive symptoms.
We found that repeated practice at thinking about emotional situations in a more concrete and specific way reduced depression and rumination to a greater extent than relaxation alone.
The paper emphasises the importance of conducting comprehensive reviews of the epidemiology of major chronic diseases in Africa to provide more concrete, context specific evidence for policy.
