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- The study investigated how a high-level construal mindset affects the way people categorize information, specifically by focusing on thematic relations.
- In three experiments, participants were primed to adopt either a high-level or low-level construal mindset before completing a triad task that assesses their classification preferences.
- Results consistently showed that those with a high-level construal mindset were more likely to categorize items thematically, regardless of the type of objects used in the experiments.
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The present study examined whether a high-level construal mindset promotes categorizing information according to thematic relations. In three experiments, the construal-level priming task was used to initiate a high-level versus low-level construal mindset, and then all participants were asked to complete the triad task, which is a task measuring the preference to classify. The results of Experiments 1 and 2 have shown that regardless of whether it was a set of artificially produced objects (Experiment 1) or a set of natural objects (Experiment 2), the high-level construal mindset group exhibited a higher proportion of thematic responses in the triad task. Experiment 3 transformed the stimulus set of the triad task into a set that consisted of many, larger, published, and controlled/optimized stimuli. The results of the experiment still showed that the high-level construal mindset group exhibited a higher proportion of thematic responses in the triad task. The findings suggest that a high-level construal mindset promotes categorizing information based on thematic relations.
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