Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Stephen Diamond's avatar

Psychologists have found that powerful subjectively experience slower time. I haven't seen this finding related to CLT, but it would make sense that far mode produces a slower sense of time (along with faster mental activity). [Organisms have more time to escape a threat or prepare to catch a reward when it is distant.] A recent paper on power and time perception (accepted for JPSP) fails, however, to mention construal level as part of the mechanism: http://static.squarespace.c... (The Power to Control Time: Power Influences How Much Time (You Think) You Have. [Time perception is likely the omitted link between procrastination and CLT--a link Katja Grace and I have separately addressed.------Also, I've just posted Plain-talk writing countersignals power invoking signaling theory and CLT: http://tinyurl.com/ppmv7vt .

Expand full comment
RobinHanson's avatar

The ability to get away with doing abstraction could signal that one has power.

Expand full comment
4 more comments...

No posts