Talk:Experiential avoidance

Small simplification
I think the sentence: "Conversely, expressing unpleasant emotion results in short-term increases in arousal, but long-term decreases in arousal." Would be more readable like this "Conversely, expressing the unpleasant emotions can lead to improvements in the long term, even though if it increases reactions in the short term."

Arousal reads like jargon in this context and likely has a very specific meaning for which you need to read the cited article to know which definition of arousal has been used.

I want to give the opportunity to object before changing it, just in case. 2A02:A457:558:1:48C4:DB42:AE80:E9C3 (talk) 09:29, 18 October 2021 (UTC)

On why Openess to experience is unrelated
Openness to experience (openness) is a personality dimension described by the Big Five model. Openness can be thought of as a measure of the level of interest a person has in novelty, art, literature, abstract thinking, philosophy as well as sensitivity to aesthetic emotions and beauty. People high in openness are more likely to be described by others as exploratory, curious and creative. The Big Five model also describes the dimension neuroticism, which boils down to sensitivity to negative emotion.

The article experiential avoidance is written in a way that describes a phenomenom where a person actively avoids specific situations due to a perceived risk of it resulting in negative emotion. The subject definition does not seem to discriminate between old, already familiar and novel, previously unknown experiences.

People low in openness simply report being disinterested of the novel. They are more likely to agree with statements like "art is meaningless". They are more likely to stick to traditions. They do not report negative emotion playing a role in this property of theirs or avoiding behavior. People high in neuroticism report being more apprehensive and feeling more anticipatory anxiety. They also report viewing past events more negatively. Openness and neuroticism are not significantly correlated.

Due to all of this, I do not see how the personality dimension and the subject of the article are related or opposites of each other.

Damighty (talk) 20:39, 24 May 2022 (UTC)