Borovoi, Leah; Liberman, Nira; Trope, Yaacov - In: Judgment and Decision Making 5 (2010) 2, pp. 102-109
We examine how adding an Attractive but Unattainable Alternative (AUA) to a set of available but less attractive alternatives influences evaluations of near vs.\ distant future sets of alternatives. According to Construal Level Theory (Liberman \& Trope, 2008) including an AUA would decrease the...