People can have difficulty intuiting what others think about them at least partly because people evaluate themselves in more fine-grained detail than observers do. This mismatch in the level of detail at which people construe themselves versus others diminishes accuracy in social judgment. Being a more accurate mind reader requires thinking of oneself at a higher level of construal that matches...

Abstract Based on theoretical and empirical studies dealing with the facilitation inhibiting effects of different psychic distances (low vs. high construal-level), we tested if exhibition self-control under a construal-level is more efficient less resource exhausting mode, compared to low construal level. Prior already showed that execution results in lower has facilitating self-control. We exp...

When we hear an event description, our construal of the event is not only based on the lexical items in the message, but also on the message’s syntactic structure. This has been well-studied in the domains of how listeners conceptualize causation, roles of event participants, or object properties, depending on syntactic choices. Less studied are subtle aspects of the construal of temporality an...

The Model of Intuitive Morality and Exemplars (MIME) predicts a mutual dependency between the moral scrutiny of mediated narratives and media exposure. This study proposes moral judgments of media content are not only related to basal moral domain salience and exemplars, but also to the immediate processing state of the individual at the moment of exposure. An experiment manipulating construal ...

In 6 studies, we found that advice is more idealistic than choice in decisions that trade off idealistic and pragmatic considerations. We propose that because advisers are more psychologically distant from the choosers' decision problem, they construe the dilemma at a higher construal level than do choosers (Trope & Liberman, 2003, 2010). Consequently, advisers are more influenced by idealistic...