construal

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They showed that participants in the low-construal thinking condition (thinking about means rather than ends) held on to the handgrip for, on average, 4.9 seconds less than they had during the baseline measurement.

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  • (Of course, to appreciate that as a well-formed sequence requires a construal of sexy as a noun.) —  Language Log
  • I viewed Wyeth's position in this case as asking the Court for a broader construal of pre-emption than it had offered in past cases. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • Being "for" or "against" Technology in some general monolithic construal is stupid, being —  amor mundi
  • Agreeing that the right of self-government was indeed "sacred" and the "only rightful basis of any government," Lincoln nonetheless insisted that Douglas was utterly mistaken in his construal of it. —  Claremont.org
  • In the following, we explain what we mean by mental construal and how it relates to traversing psychological distances. —  Resilience Science
 

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