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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The public perception of climate change as abstract and distant may undermine climate action. According to construal level theory, whether a phenomenon is perceived as psychologically distant or close is associated with whether it is construed as ...
Susie Wang +5 more
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“Proximising” climate change reconsidered: A construal level theory perspective [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2016 Reducing the psychological distance of climate change has repeatedly been proposed as one strategy to increase individuals’ motivation to respond to climate change. From the perspective of construal level theory, decreasing psychological distance should not itself influence people’s willingness to act but change the processes that underlie individual ...
Adrian Brügger +2 more
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Camping, weather, and disasters: Extending the Construal Level Theory
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 2021 Abstract Camping is an outdoor accommodation and type of recreation that is susceptible to weather and climate change. Camping—in addition to the relationships camping shares with weather— remains understudied despite the subsectors’ salient economic impact and high participation rate. The observable effects of non-meteorological/climatological (e.g.,
Christopher A. Craig +3 more
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The Influence of Spatial Distance and Trade-Off Salience on Ethical Decision-Making: An Eye-Tracking Study Based on Embodied Cognition [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesResearch based on the theory of embodied cognition has revealed that the vertical position of target information in space influences individuals’ construal level, which in turn affects their ethical decision-making.
Yu Yang +3 more
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Managing university crises through psychological distance and information strategies [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHigher education institutions experiencing organizational misconduct frequently need to communicate with the public to reduce reputation damage and diminishing supportive intentions.
Xiaoyu Jiang +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The construal level theory (CLT) has been supported and applied widely in social psychology. Yet, what remains unclear is the mechanism behind it. The authors extend the current literature by hypothesizing that perceived control mediates and locus of ...
Hui-dan Huang, Qi Zhang
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Heliyon, 2022 Prohibitive voice is important for employees and organizations to reduce hindrance stressor. However, previous research offered limited knowledge for whether prohibitive voice can lead to communication effectiveness in the context of hindrance stressor ...
Long Chen
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Does virtual reality lower construal levels?
Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2022 Although virtual reality (VR) is currently one of the fastest growing technologies, little research has compared its effect on cognitive state relative to computers.
Michael Cahalane +2 more
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Are Investors Warned by Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest? The Moderating Effect of Investment Horizon [PDF]
, 2020 Financial analysts are required to disclose conflicts of interest (COI) in their research reports, but there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of COI disclosures.
Huang, Z. +3 more
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Construal level theory and escalation of commitment [PDF]
Theory and Decision, 2020 AbstractEscalation of commitment causes people to continue a failing course of action. We study the role of construal level in such escalation of commitment. Consistent with the widely held view of construal level as a primed effect, we employed a commonly used prime for manipulating this construct in a laboratory experiment. Our findings revealed that
Nick Benschop +5 more
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