"more concreteness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is specific, definite, and tangible. Here is an example: "Adding more concreteness to your writing can make it more engaging and vivid for your readers." In this sentence, "more concreteness" refers to using precise details and descriptions in writing to make the text more specific and tangible.
Thus, a logical conclusion of these findings is that training individuals to adopt more concrete construals (henceforth concreteness training, CNT) might have potential as a guided self-help intervention for depression.
A similar prediction is made by the reduced concreteness theory, which proposes that worry is predominantly experienced in a more abstract-verbal form rather than in a more concrete-visual imagery form, and that this reduced concreteness leads to negative consequences for problem solving and affect regulation (Borkovec et al., 1998; Stöber, 1998).
Concreteness training involved repeated mental exercises designed to encourage more concrete and specific thinking about emotional events.
Both the reduced concreteness theory (Stöber & Borkovec, 2002) and the AIT Vallacherr & Wegner, 1987) hypothesize that a more concrete level of goal/action identification provides more elaborated and contextual detail about the specific means, alternatives, and actions by which to best proceed when faced with difficult, novel or complex situations.
Third, concreteness was highly correlated with S similarity (r = 0.40, CI = 0.27, 0.51), such that the more concrete the words were rated, the more semantically similar across languages they are (this is similar to Tokowicz et al., 2002).
The anticipation of future events (as in worry) may lend itself to a greater range of levels of concreteness than thoughts about past experiences that have already happened (as in rumination), which are by definition more concrete than future events.
These two dimensions (i.e. concreteness and imageability; [41]) are known to affect word retrieval and recognition in both healthy and brain-damaged individuals [42], [43]: the more concrete and imaginable the word is, the faster it will be processed.
They were selected on the basis of the ratings participants gave each word on the semantic variable concreteness/abstractness, whereby the 20 more concrete emotion words with sensorimotor links were partitioned from the 20 more abstract words.
> Materials We selected 64 words with values of 6.00 or more for imagery, concreteness, and meaningfulness from Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan (1968) and translated them into Polish.
