Pregnancy has been considered a special period with cognitive defect and unstable emotion. However, physiological and psychological changes jointly reshape the brain of pregnant women, which makes them more patient and prefer future outcomes. Specifically, they become more future-orientated, self-controlled and more positive to the future. These phenomena can be accounted for evolution perspect...

Interdependent self-construal refers to a view of the self as embedded in relationships with others. Prior work suggests that this construal is linked to a strong value placed on social obligations and duties. Interdependent people are therefore cognitively attuned to others and various social events in their surroundings while down-regulating their personal goals. In the present work, we exami...

The authors propose that self-control involves making decisions and behaving in a manner consistent with high-level versus low-level construals of a situation. Activation of high-level construals (which capture global, superordinate, primary features of an event) should lead to greater self-control than activation of low-level construals (which capture local, subordinate, secondary features). I...

versus Concrete Inputs: Construal Level Theory While there may be several different ways of addressing this inconsistency, the current research proposes one such resolution by drawing on construal level theory (CLT; Trope, Liberman, and Wakslak 2007). CLT states that objects, events, and individuals can be perceived as being either psychologically near or far along different dimensions of dista...

As a contribution to the debate about Fair Trade contributions United Nations Sustainability Development Goals, this article investigates Spanish shoppers' behaviour towards Fairtrade coffee. Although consumers generally state that they purchase fairly traded products, market shares of most them remain low, phenomenon known as ethical purchasing gap. Our review identifies gap in extant literatu...

Across 7 studies, the authors examined the relationship between experiences of verticality and abstract versus concrete processing. Experiencing high, relative to low, verticality led to higher level identifications for actions (Study 1), greater willingness to delay short-term monetary gains for larger long-term monetary gains (Studies 2 and 5), and more frequent perceptions of meaningful rela...

We propose that self-control involves making decisions and behaving in a manner consistent with high level, as compared to low level, construals of a situation. Activation of high level construals (which capture global, superordinate, primary features of an event) should lead to greater self-control than activation of low level construals (which capture local, subordinate, secondary features). ...