Temporal Construal Effects on Abstract and Concrete Thinking Consequences for Insight and Creative Cognition. [article].

Six studies investigate whether how distant future time perspective facilitates abstract thinking and impedes concrete thinking by altering the level at which mental representations are construed. In experiments 1 - 3 participants who envisioned their lives and imagined themselves engaging in a task...

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Main Author: Forster, Jens
Format: Analytics
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