I think I’ve heard LW/OB people using near/far mode to talk about how their desire to do certain things depend on how far away they are (e.g. “In far mode I want to have exercised every day a month from now, but in near mode, I don’t want to do it today”). Is there actually any connection between this sort of usage and construal level theory? All construal level theory covers, to my knowledge, is how our brains map different kinds of distance into the same buckets.
That example is probably just hyperbolic discounting. But CLT does say that we think differently about near/far things. In particular, we think more abstractly about distant things. That sounds like a stronger claim than yours. Try Robin Hanson’s first post on the subject. Do you agree with him? with his source?
An example of hypocrisy where RH goes beyond normal CLT, but where I think it is quite fair to say that there is some connection.
His source in the first place is where I learned about construal-level theory, and I find/found it quite convincing. Hanson seems pretty accurate in his summary/analysis there, too.
In the second post: The Good Samaritan experiment seems like a stretch to apply here, but his other source is just the kind of experiment I would have thought should tell you whether CT does apply to “ideals” or not, and it appears that it does. Thanks for pointing me to these posts.
I think I’ve heard LW/OB people using near/far mode to talk about how their desire to do certain things depend on how far away they are (e.g. “In far mode I want to have exercised every day a month from now, but in near mode, I don’t want to do it today”). Is there actually any connection between this sort of usage and construal level theory? All construal level theory covers, to my knowledge, is how our brains map different kinds of distance into the same buckets.
That example is probably just hyperbolic discounting. But CLT does say that we think differently about near/far things. In particular, we think more abstractly about distant things. That sounds like a stronger claim than yours. Try Robin Hanson’s first post on the subject. Do you agree with him? with his source?
An example of hypocrisy where RH goes beyond normal CLT, but where I think it is quite fair to say that there is some connection.
His source in the first place is where I learned about construal-level theory, and I find/found it quite convincing. Hanson seems pretty accurate in his summary/analysis there, too.
In the second post: The Good Samaritan experiment seems like a stretch to apply here, but his other source is just the kind of experiment I would have thought should tell you whether CT does apply to “ideals” or not, and it appears that it does. Thanks for pointing me to these posts.