• DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.87.2.177
Corpus ID: 6252334

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

@article{Frster2004TemporalCE,
  title={Temporal construal effects on abstract and concrete thinking: consequences for insight and creative cognition.},
  author={J. F{\"o}rster and R. Friedman and N. Liberman},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2004},
  volume={87 2},
  pages={
          177-89
        }
}

• J. Förster, R. Friedman, N. Liberman
• Published 2004
• Psychology, Medicine
• Journal of personality and social psychology

Six studies investigate whether and how distant future time perspective facilitates abstract thinking and impedes concrete thinking by altering the level at which mental representations are construed. In Experiments 1-3, participants who envisioned their lives and imagined themselves engaging in a task 1 year later as opposed to the next day subsequently performed better on a series of insight tasks. In Experiments 4 and 5 a distal perspective was found to improve creative generation of… Expand

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