How Construals of Money Versus Time Impact Consumer Charitable Giving
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terms. In other words, marketing communications that effectively leverage alignment between positioning of the cause (i.e., concrete vs. abstract) and the construal activated by a particular resource (i.e., money vs. time) might be 2 JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH
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