Temporal construal effects on abstract and concrete thinking: consequences for insight and creative cognition.

By Jens Förster, R. Friedman, Nira Liberman. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Temporal Construal in Advertising (2009, neutral): “Consistent with this view, research suggests that greater temporal distance from objects or events results in more emphasis on primary features rather than secondary features (e.g., Förster, Friedman, and Liberman 2004; Liberman, Sagristano, and Trope 2002).”
Why do words hurt? Content, process, and criterion shift accounts of verbal overshadowing (2008, background): “Forster et al.’s (2004) findings map well onto Schooler et al.’s (1993) research on the effects of verbalisation on insight problem solving.”
Temporal distance and ease of retrieval. (2007, methodology): “Applying a method of Förster, Friedman, and Liberman (2004), the temporal focus of the participants was manipulated: Participants were instructed to think during 2 min about their life in general and about tasks they would have to manage either next week (nearfuture condition) or in a year from now…”
Feeling Mixed but Not Torn: The Moderating Role of Construal Level in Mixed Emotions Appeals (2010, neutral): “in Mixed Emotions Appeals”
Behavioral Activation Links to Creativity Because of Increased Cognitive Flexibility (2011, background): “Past work has shown that projecting oneself into the distal future induces a more global processing mode whereas thinking about oneself in the proximal future induces a more local processing mode (Förster et al., 2004).”
Does Negative Feedback Benefit (or Harm) Recipient Creativity? The Role of the Direction of Feedback Flow (2020, background): “This threatened mindset inhibits recipients from taking risks by experimenting with creative ideas (F¨orster, Friedman, & Liberman, 2004; Friedman & F¨orster, 2001; Kluger & DeNisi, 1996) and lowers the mental resources and cognitive capacity that should be allocated to creative processes (see, for…”
Lessons from a Faraway land: The effect of spatial distance on creative cognition (2009, background): “The current finding is consistent with previous research showing the effect of psychological distance on creativity (Förster et al., 2004) and extends it from temporal distance to spatial distance.”
Construal Levels and Psychological Distance: Effects on Representation, Prediction, Evaluation, and Behavior. (2007, background): “Forster, Friedman, and Liberman (2004) asked people to complete various tasks that required the abstraction of coherent images from fragmented or noisy visual input.”