Flexibility and Consistency in Evaluative Responding: The Function of Construal Level
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This chapter explores the issue of evaluative consistency and context-dependence by considering when stability or flexibility in evaluative responding would be most useful for the social organism. We propose that cues about distance functionally shape evaluations to flexibly incorporate information from their current context when individuals are acting on proximal stimuli, but to Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Volume 43 # 2010 Elsevier Inc. ISSN 0065-2601, DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(10)43006-3 All rights reserved. * Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, USA { Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, USA { Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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