Seeing the forest when entry is unlikely: probability and the mental representation of events.
Wakslak CJ, Trope Y, Liberman N, Alony R.
Wakslak CJ, et al. Among authors: trope y.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2006 Nov;135(4):641-53. doi: 10.1037/0096-3445.135.4.641.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2006.
PMID: 17087578
Conceptualizing probability as psychological distance, the authors draw on construal level theory (Y. Trope & N. Liberman, 2003) to propose that decreasing an event's probability leads individuals to represent the event by its central, abstract, general features …
Conceptualizing probability as psychological distance, the authors draw on construal level theory (Y. Trope & N. Liberman, …