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- Title
Viewing time through the lens of the self: The fit effect of self-construal and temporal distance on task perception.
- Authors
Lee, Sujin; Lee, Angela Y.; Kern, Mary C.
- Abstract
This paper describes how different self-construals influence people's perception of temporal distance and in turn their task evaluation. We hypothesize that people with a more accessible interdependent (vs. independent) self-construal perceive future events as temporally more proximal, and that people's reaction toward a task is intensified when the temporal distance to the task matches (vs. mismatches) their self-construal. Across four studies, we showed that individuals with a more accessible interdependent self-construal (Study 1) and East Asians (Study 2) perceived future events as more proximal than those with a more accessible independent self-construal and European Americans. Further, when considering a task at a temporal distance that fits their self-construal, individuals perceived a pleasant task as more motivating (Study 3) and an unpleasant task as less motivating (Study 4). Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
NORTHWESTERN States; ANALYSIS of covariance; ANALYSIS of variance; GRADUATE students; SENSORY perception; SELF-perception; T-test (Statistics); TIME; UNDERGRADUATES
- Publication
European Journal of Social Psychology, 2011, Vol 41, Issue 2, p191
- ISSN
0046-2772
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejsp.765