TY - JOUR
T1 - Creeping Dispositionism
T2 - The Temporal Dynamics of Behavior Prediction
AU - Nussbaum, Shiri
AU - Trope, Yaacov
AU - Liberman, Nira
PY - 2003/3
Y1 - 2003/3
N2 - Four studies tested the hypothesis that temporal distance increases the weight of global dispositions in predicting and explaining future behavior. Study 1 found that the correspondence bias was manifested more strongly in predictions of distant future behavior than of near future behavior. Study 2 found that participants predicted higher cross-situational consistency in distant future behavior than in near future behavior. Study 3 found that participants sought information about others' more global dispositions for predicting distant future than near future behavior. Finally, Study 4 found that participants made more global causal attributions for distant future outcomes than for near future outcomes. The results were interpreted as supporting the assumption of construal level theory that perceivers use more abstract representations (higher level construals) to predict and explain more distant future behaviors.
AB - Four studies tested the hypothesis that temporal distance increases the weight of global dispositions in predicting and explaining future behavior. Study 1 found that the correspondence bias was manifested more strongly in predictions of distant future behavior than of near future behavior. Study 2 found that participants predicted higher cross-situational consistency in distant future behavior than in near future behavior. Study 3 found that participants sought information about others' more global dispositions for predicting distant future than near future behavior. Finally, Study 4 found that participants made more global causal attributions for distant future outcomes than for near future outcomes. The results were interpreted as supporting the assumption of construal level theory that perceivers use more abstract representations (higher level construals) to predict and explain more distant future behaviors.
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U2 - 10.1037/0022-3514.84.3.485
DO - 10.1037/0022-3514.84.3.485
M3 - Article
C2 - 12635911
AN - SCOPUS:85047690265
SN - 0022-3514
VL - 84
SP - 485
EP - 497
JO - Journal of personality and social psychology
JF - Journal of personality and social psychology
IS - 3
ER -