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Temporal construal.

Yaacov Trope1, Nira Liberman

  • 1Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003, USA. trope@xp.psych.nyu.edu

Psychological Review
|July 30, 2003
PubMed
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Temporal distance influences how people mentally represent future events. Greater distance leads to abstract thinking (high-level construals), impacting evaluations and choices more than concrete details (low-level construals).

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Construal level theory explains how psychological distance affects mental representations.
  • Temporal distance influences whether people use abstract or concrete thinking.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how construal level theory impacts evaluations, predictions, and choices over time.
  • To investigate the role of abstract (high-level) versus concrete (low-level) construals in temporal judgment.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical exploration of construal level theory's implications.
  • Analysis of how abstract and concrete representations influence responses to future events.

Main Results:

  • Greater temporal distance promotes high-level construals (abstract features).

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  • High-level construals have a greater impact on responses to distant events compared to near events.
  • Construal level influences evaluations, predictions, and choices based on temporal distance.

    • Conclusions:

    • Construal level theory provides a framework for understanding temporal changes in judgment and behavior.
    • Psychological distance, mediated by construal level, underlies various evaluative and behavioral outcomes.