Theory 06
Why relief can keep a problem going: negative reinforcement, avoidance learning from two-factor theory to inhibitory learning, and experiential avoidance, with the evidence, its limits and why avoidance is not always maladaptive.
Research note 04
Why a restorative experience can leave the underlying difficulty unchanged: negative reinforcement, experiential avoidance, acute mood effects of exercise, rumination and the peak-end rule.
Interactive models
Five interactive models, computed in your browser from values you set, show how relief can strengthen a habit, how arousal shapes anger, how memory weighs peaks and endings, how rhythms fall into step and how stress load accumulates.
Question 18
The artwork states the thesis that relief is not resolution in a form an argument cannot reach: a transaction that succeeds completely while the request stays unresolved. Its numbers are artistic values, never data.
Question 03
Relief has value of its own. The problem is narrower: it reinforces whatever preceded it and is remembered better than it was, so it can be repeated while the difficulty stays in place.
Advice 08 · Theoretical
Relief reinforces whatever produced it, and memory overweights peaks and endings. A short, honest review after a cathartic experience separates relief from resolution and prevents escape from becoming a habit.