Building toward a solid foundation: The effect of thinking concretely about the future
Abstract
According to construal level theory, consumers tend to think about their future abstractly, making it unclear and inexact. Here, a new approach is developed to help people enhance their future‐oriented outcomes by priming them to think about their future concretely. Two experiments show that priming a concrete mindset about the future leads to enhanced future‐oriented outcomes. Specifically, the studies show that participants discounted current...
Paper Details
Title
Building toward a solid foundation: The effect of thinking concretely about the future
Published Date
Feb 2, 2021
Journal
Volume
55
Issue
1
Pages
254 - 273
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