Psychological distance and abstraction both represent key variables of considerable interest
to researchers across cognitive, social, and developmental psychology. Moreover, largely …

Construal level theory (CLT) offers a rich and rigorous conceptual model of how the context
shapes mental representations and subsequent outcomes. The theory has generated new …

Consumers make trade-offs when they choose between utilitarian and hedonic products.
The former is practical, instrumental, and functional, whereas the latter is sensational and …

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed how auditors work and interact with
team members and others in the financial reporting process. In particular, there has been a …

Are choices for others riskier than choices people make for themselves? This question has
been asked by economists, psychologists, and other researchers in the social sciences …

Six studies demonstrate the “pot calling the kettle black” phenomenon whereby people are
guilty of the very fault they identify in others. Recalling an undeniable ethical failure, people …

We conducted a systematic review of 143 empirical studies of advice-based decision
making published in management or psychology between 2006 and 2020. We identified two …

Over the last decade, vegan advocates have become a growing minority. By arguing against
animal-product consumption and imposing the virtue-loaded call to “go vegan,” advocates …

Advice taking is of growing interest to organizational scholars because it is a critical pathway
for knowledge transfer and learning. Based on construal level theory, we hypothesize that …

Academic research on family business advising is gaining momentum; however, the internal
structure and mechanisms of advice giving and taking remain a black box. We conducted a …