{"id":156,"date":"2019-08-06T13:13:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/niralib\/research\/"},"modified":"2019-10-08T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:27:09","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/niralib\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Construal Level Theory (CLT) of Psychological Distance <\/u><\/h2>\n

People experience only the here-and-now, and yet they care about things that are psychologically distal \u2013 things that will happen in the future or have happened in the past, in other places, to other people, and hypothetical rather\n than real things. I seek to understand how people navigate between proximal and distal concerns: How distance from an object changes the way it is mentally represented and subjectively evaluated; how proximal decisions differ from\n distal ones; how motivation changes with proximity to a goal; and what makes people expand versus contract their mental horizons.   Construal Level Theory suggests that abstraction enables traversing of psychological distance.\n The basic questions of what is psychological distance, what is abstraction and how they are related has been the focus of my research over the years. In addition, my lab addressed and continues to address more specific questions,\n for example, how psychological distance affects working memory, social comparison, embodied representation, attitude-behavior correspondence, moral reasoning, and intensity of motivation.

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Seeking Proxies for Internal States (SPIS): A Social-Cognitive Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder<\/u><\/a>
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by intrusive thoughts, pervasive doubts, self-monitoring, repeated checking and behavior guided by fixed rules and compulsive rituals. I apply social-cognitive theories of how people\n know themselves, how they make decisions, and how they monitor and terminate action in order to explain OCD phenomenology. In collaboration with researchers in clinical psychology, I propose to explain OCD as stemming from attenuated\n access to internal states, including bodily states, feelings, emotions, wishes and preferences. To counter this deficit, according to our theory, individuals with OCD seek and rely on proxies, which are relatively discernible indices\n of these internal states.

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Essentialism, Disgust, and Conservatism <\/u>
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Building on the construct of essentialism, I propose that both physical and moral disgust involve essentializing, namely, ascribing of a clear, distinct and deep negativity to the entity that is deemed disgusting.

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