Construal levels and self-control.

Construal levels and self-control.

The authors propose that self-control involves making decisions and behaving in a manner consistent with high-level versus low-level construals of a situation. Activation of high-level construals (which capture global, superordinate, primary features of an event) should lead to greater self-control than activation of low-level construals (which capture local, subordinate, secondary features). I...

RUNNING HEAD: Levels and Self-Control Construal Levels and Self-Control

We propose that self-control involves making decisions and behaving in a manner consistent with high level, as compared to low level, construals of a situation. Activation of high level construals (which capture global, superordinate, primary features of an event) should lead to greater self-control than activation of low level construals (which capture local, subordinate, secondary features). ...

ATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Construal Levels and Self-Control

and concrete mindsets on anticipating and guiding others’ self-regulatory efforts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40,

Effects of Construal Levels and Self-control Strength in Effortful Cycling Exercise

Moving beyond deliberative control of impulses: the effect of construal levels on evaluative associations in self-control conflicts.

Many prominent models propose that self-control requires deliberative control of impulses. We propose that people's subjective mental construals of events can alter temptation impulses without requiring conscious deliberation. Research has indicated that high-level construals (subjective mental representations that capture the core, essential, and abstract features of events) lead to greater se...