Happy today, happy tomorrow: The (non-)effect of temporal distance on judgments of Life Satisfaction |
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Authors: | Danilo Garcia |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg, P.O. Box 500, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope &; Liberman, 2003) posits that everyday life predictions, evaluations, and choices are influenced by how near or distant in time the event is. However, judgments of Life Satisfaction (LS) are relatively weakly influenced by situational factors and relatively strongly influenced by personality factors. Moreover, the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis ( [Schacter and Addis, 2007] and [Schacter and Addis, 2007]) implies that memory of past events provides details for simulations of future novel experiences. Undergraduate students (N = 127) were randomly asked for how desirable LS was and for actual judgements of LS in the near- or distant-future. The results show that LS was more desirable in the distant-future. Thus, indicating that LS is abstractly assessed and judgments of LS should therefore be influenced by temporal distance as predicted by CLT. However, no significant differences in actual LS were found between conditions. Implications for theory development are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Adolescents Big Five Character Psychological well-being Subjective well-being TCI Temperament Traits |
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