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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"construal"”.
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Complementarity in Interpersonal Construal
The interpersonal construal styles of 184 females classified into moderate or extreme levels of Leary's (1957) eight interpersonal personality types were compared. Women representing the various extreme octants were predicted to misconstrue a set of interpersonal stimuli as complementary to their …
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Construal level theory and mathematics education
… and metacognitive mathematical demands. Construal level theory, and to a lesser extent dual process theory, are theories in cognitive and social psychology which provide a lens through which the difficulties of reasoning at multiple levels of abstraction can be viewed. Construal level …
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Mental Construal and Alterations in Emotional Memory
… feel about the experience. Investigating how construal levels affect emotional memories may provide more insight into how individuals may potentially alter the recall of their memories. The current study reflects a new examination of the effect of primed high and low construal levels on the …
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Self-Construal Moderates Testosterone Reactivity To Competitive Outcomes
… examined whether one individual difference--self-construal--would moderate these effects. In Study 1, participants were assigned to win or lose a competitive video game and engaged in a reactive aggression task. Results indicated that increases in testosterone in response to winning and decreases …
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Attachment style, affect and construal of interpersonal conflict
The relationships between attachment style, negative affect, and attribution were examined. Male undergraduates (n=72) were asked to report on their style in intimate relationships, anger and attributions about negative behavior by an actual girlfriend. Results indicated that those with an Avoidant …
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Individualism and Interdependence: Tapping into the Third Self-Construal
… when it comes to describing an individual’s self-construal much of the focus is on its interdependent and independent aspects or dimensions. Individuals with a more independent self-construal are generally more focused on their own goals and driven by their needs and are usually autonomous from …
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Time and time again: cultural differences in construal levels
People mentally represent information, objects, and events in a variety of ways. The purpose of the present program of research was to investigate how culture affects the way people represent temporal information. I hypothesized that increased temporal distance would lead Canadians to think more …
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The Effects of Tripartite Self-Construal on Prosocial Behavior
… of both primed and unprimed tripartite self-construal on real helping behavior offered in a laboratory setting. Additional variables commonly associated with prosocial behavior, namely empathy (Eisenberg & Miller, 1987) and agreeableness (Graziano, Hasbashi, Sheese & Tobin, 2007; Caprara, …
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The effects of construal level on types of creative agreements
This work examined effects of construal levels, or how abstractly one views one’s situation, on negotiated agreements. In contrast to prior work emphasizing the importance of taking an abstract view or high construal level, this dissertation demonstrates that both high and low (concrete) construal …
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Religion and Science: Seeking Meaning in High and Low Construal Levels
… how meaning-making motivations interact with construal level to influence the endorsement of science and religion. Past studies suggest that religious endorsement is greater when high construals are primed than when low construals are primed, and scientific endorsement is greater when low …
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Defending the self: the role of the relational-interdependent self-construal
… with relational-interdependent self-construals define themselves based on their important relationships. This organization of the self-concept has implications for self-enhancement and self-protection. High relationals should be motivated to maintain and strengthen important …
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Social Network Size: The Effect of Construal Priming on Social Groups
… social network. Studies 2 and 3 examined whether construal mindset changes the way people sort their relationships. I expected that individuals adopting an abstract mindset would report having fewer, more vague social groups (e.g., "friends”), compared to those adopting a concrete mindset, who …
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Cultural Values Reflected in Chinese Advertisements: Self -Construal and Persuasion Implications
… shift individuals' cultural orientations (self-construals). And third, such value-shifting influences individuals' attitudes, thoughts, and behavioral choices. Three studies were conducted focusing on the Chinese X-Generation market and comparing it with the mass market. In Study 1, content …
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Relational Interdependent Self construal, and Spiritual Maturity as Predictors of Marital Satisfaction
… Maturity and Relational Interdependent Self Construal, in predicting the variance in marital satisfaction, after controlling for number of children, religion, employment status, education, length of marriage and household income among married heterosexual couples in Antigua. The Caribbean …
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Trilectic of Testimony: A Phenomenological Construal of the Eucharist as Manifestation-Proclamation-Attestation
<p>This thesis seeks to revolutionize thinking the sacrament, in particular the Eucharist. Instead of construing the Eucharist in terms of substance or symbol, the Eucharist is construed phenomenologically as manifestation-proclamation-attestation. In this way, the particular emphases of Catholic …
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The interdependent self-construal as a moderator in using relationships as natural categories
… between the self and others (an independent self-construal), or with more fluid boundaries between the self and others (an interdependent self-construal) (Markus & Kitayama, 1991). It was hypothesized that those with very interdependent self-construals would tend to organize social information …
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Outness Through a Cultural Lens: Self-Construal Impacts Disclosure Among Diverse Sexual Minority Individuals
… their sexual orientation across contexts. Self-construal (Markus & Kitayama, 1991) – the degree to which individuals see themselves as distinct and independent vs. connected and interdependent with others – was used as the cultural lens of the self-concept to examine disclosure tendencies. The …
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Generation Z employees' construal of workplace leadership: an application of the repertory grid technique
… leadership aspirations but also exhibit unique construal patterns, emphasising the diverse array of leadership preferences within Gen Z employees. In conjunction with the thematic analysis, the PCA plots visually depict the intricate relationships between participants' ideal leader, their …
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