Looking at the World from a Distance: Construal Level in Time Predictions and Counterfactual Thinking

versus concrete processing modes, and ask people to predict the consequences of positive and negative events. Such a study could also include measures of emotional impact in order to directly test whether shifts in construal level yield opposite effects on evaluations of consequences versus affective reactions (Terum & Svartdal, submitted). Final Remarks By the advent of CLT, scholars gained a powerful analytic tool for understanding a variety of phenomena. It enables students of human behaviour to draw conceptual links between phenomena that, until now, have been studied within separate research traditions.