Mental traveling along psychological distances: The effects of cultural syndromes, perspective flexibility, and construal level.

Wong, Vincent; Wyer, Robert S.

doi:10.1037/pspa0000048

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“…For example, Taiwanese children are typically encouraged to use other persons as standards of comparison and to perceive negative behaviors as character deficits that need to be corrected in order to fulfill the expectations held by others (Miller et al, 1997). In addition, they are expected to behave benevolently toward members of the groups to which they belong and to take others' interests into account (Wong & Wyer, 2016). Although North American children can also have these concerns, they are more commonly encouraged to perceive themselves as unique individuals and to evaluate themselves independently of others.…”

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Dimensions of holistic thinking: Implications for nonsocial information processing across cultures.

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Dimensions of holistic thinking: Implications for nonsocial information processing across cultures.

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“…In addition, Tinsley et al (2012) showed that near-miss information can range from "resilient," which highlights the perceived resilience of a system because the disaster did not occur, to "vulnerable," States. Given that culture can influence CLs (Wong & Wyer, 2016), an exciting direction would be to examine CLT's impact on near-miss sampling participants from different countries. A critical element of near-miss events is the role of chance in avoiding disaster.…”

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Construal level theory and risky decision making following near‐miss events

Kirshner

2020

Behavioral Decision Making

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Near-miss events, which occur when failure is avoided by chance, can lead to subsequent risky decisions due to base-rate neglect. According to construal level theory, a lower level construal increases the neglect of base rates by giving more weight to case-specific information. In four studies, I empirically test the hypothesis that lowlevel construals moderate evaluations and decisions following near-miss events by increasing the reliance on case information. In Study 1, I find that a higher construal correlates with negative assessments of a project manager responsible for a nearmiss incident. In Study 2, I prime participants to have a high-or low-level construal and find that the manager evaluations in the low construal group are higher than evaluations of those in the high construal group. In Study 3, I examine whether construal levels impact decision making in personal contexts regarding natural disasters and provide evidence for the underlying mechanism of base-rate neglect. In Study 4, I show that the construal levels affect decision making given that near-miss information extends to variations in the temporal distance to near-miss information. Thus, I find support that construal levels systematically influence evaluations and decision making following near-miss events.

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“…Wong, Wyer, Wyer, and Adaval () found that Asians are more likely than North Americans to evaluate paintings by focusing on the whole without considering details of the elements that compose it, whereas North Americans are more inclined to focus on individual features without regard to their context. Moreover, Wong and Wyer () found that Asians had both a broader time perspective and a broader social perspective than Westerners and consequently were less influenced by the temporal and social distance of events.…”

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The role of mindsets, productions, and perceptual symbols in goal‐directed information processing

Wyer

2017

Consumer Psychology Review

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Three recent conceptualizations have been proposed to account for the manner in which goal-directed activity in one situation can influence judgments, behavioral decisions, and overt behavior in a later situation. One, which accounts for the effect of behavioral mindsets (Wyer & Xu, 2010, Journal of Consumer Psychology, 20, 107), conceptualizes the effect of performing goal-directed behavior in a situation on the strategies selected for use in attaining quite different goals in a later, unrelated situation. A second, stimulated by Anderson's (1983, The architecture of cognition, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA) conceptualization of cognitive productions, accounts for the effects of stimuli of which one is not completely aware on motor behavior that is performed with little if any cognitive mediation. The third, suggested by Barsalou's (1999, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 577; 2008, Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 617) conceptualization of perceptual symbol systems (Barsalou, 1999), accounts for the associations of not only semantic concepts and their metaphorical meanings but also visual images, affective reactions, sensory stimulation (taste, smell, etc.), and behavioral dispositions. Recent research exemplifying effects of each of these formulations is reviewed, and an approach for conceptually integrating their implications into a more general formulation of information processing is suggested. K E Y W O R D Sgrounded cognition, mindsets, priming, procedural knowledge, productions | INTRODUCTIONAlthough people's thoughts, feelings, and overt behavior are often consciously goal-directed, they can also occur spontaneously with little if any cognitive deliberation. They can be elicited in part by characteristics of the situation in which they occur, but are also influenced by previously acquired concepts and knowledge. However, people typically do not consider all of the relevant knowledge they have acquired (Taylor & Fiske, 1978). Rather, they restrict their consideration to a small portion of it that happens to come to mind easily at the time.Consequently, objectively irrelevant situational factors that influence the subset of knowledge that is accessible in memory at the time people make a judgment can have an impact on this judgment and decisions that are based on it.This observation is not controversial. After considerable research during the past four decades, the effects of knowledge accessibility on judgments are now taken for granted. Thus, procedures for influencing the subset of knowledge that people have accessible in memory have become a standard methodological tool in determining the cognitive bases for individuals' responses to the situations they encounter and the information they receive.Theoretical formulations of the processes that underlie the effects of knowledge activation and its consequences (e.g., Collins & Loftus, 1975;Higgins, Bargh, & Lombardi, 1985;Hintzman, 1986; Wyer & Srull, 1989) have also received broad support. However, theseMost of the writing of ...

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Mental traveling along psychological distances: The effects of cultural syndromes, perspective flexibility, and construal level.

Cited by 28 publications

References 89 publications

Dimensions of holistic thinking: Implications for nonsocial information processing across cultures.

Dimensions of holistic thinking: Implications for nonsocial information processing across cultures.

Construal level theory and risky decision making following near‐miss events

The role of mindsets, productions, and perceptual symbols in goal‐directed information processing

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