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I'm not sure that's right. For example, consider people who experience severe panic attacks about death--death that is as of yet theoretical and far for them. They're intensely scared/anxious of something that is the farthest it gets.

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Not that it needs to, but does construal level theory have any applications at this point? I suppose any understanding of psychological tendencies can be used for some marketing purposes, and maybe integrated into therapy.

Most of what I've seen about which things are near and far make me feel like it's about learning a taxonomy. Memorizing all the species, phyla, classes, etc. is not the most productive way to understand biology, so I feel similarly unmotivated/disinterested by construal level theory. (Of course it's good that someone is categorizing the biological taxons and the psychological taxons. It may just not be for me, but I'm curious if I'm missing something else about it that makes it more than just taxonomy.)

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