@inbook{10.7758/9781610443661.13,
 ISBN = {9780871545497},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610443661.13},
 abstract = {Construal level theory (CLT) posits that temporal distance influences the evaluation and choice of future events by systematically changing the way they are construed. We propose that individuals form higher-level construals of distant future events than near future events. High-level construals are schematic, abstract, and include central features of events, whereas low-level construals are less schematic, more concrete, and may also include incidental, peripheral features of events. We argue, then, that judgment and choice regarding the more temporally distant events are based on higher-level construals of the events. Thus temporal distance affects level of construal, which in turn affects evaluation},
 author = {Nira Liberman and Yaacov Trope},
 booktitle = {Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives of Intertemporal Choice},
 pages = {245--276},
 publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation},
 title = {Construal Level Theory of Intertemporal Judgment and Decision},
 year = {2003}
}