The Role of Elaboration Moderating the Effects of Temporal Construal on Evaluation

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Construal Level Theory posits that future events are differentially construed, and thus evaluated, as a function of whether they are to be experienced in the near or distant future. We explore the question of when temporal distance influences evaluation, testing three alternative hypotheses. The results demonstrate that temporal distance only influences evaluation under thoughtful conditions. Although temporal construal effects emerge either for individuals high in need for cognition (study 1) or when individuals carefully think (study 2), they do not emerge for individuals low in need for cognition, nor when individuals do not engage in effortful thinking.

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