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Direct linkWakslak, Cheryl J.; Trope, Yaacov; Liberman, Nira; Alony, Rotem – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
Conceptualizing probability as psychological distance, the authors draw on construal level theory (Y. Trope & N. Liberman, 2003) to propose that decreasing an event's probability leads individuals to represent the event by its central, abstract, general features (high-level construal) rather than by its peripheral, concrete, specific features…
Descriptors: Probability, Object Permanence, Cognitive Processes, Theories
