Traversing psychological distance

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 364-369

  Liberman, Nira ^a   Trope, Yaacov ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Construal level theory; Psychological distance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ABSTRACTION; CONSTRUAL LEVELS; COUNTERFACTUALS; DIRECT EXPERIENCE; PERSPECTIVE TAKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

ABSTRACTING;

AUTOREGULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PLANNING; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF CONTROL; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPACE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAVERSING PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTANCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; THINKING;

HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; THINKING;

EID: 84903156376     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.03.001     Document Type: Review

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