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Hubbard, Alexa Davies.

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Coping with Variability through Mental Abstraction and Behavioral Flexibility.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Coping with Variability through Mental Abstraction and Behavioral Flexibility./
Author:	Hubbard, Alexa Davies.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	140 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-02B.
Subject:	Social psychology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27740620
ISBN:	9798662552623

Coping with Variability through Mental Abstraction and Behavioral Flexibility.
Hubbard, Alexa Davies.

Coping with Variability through Mental Abstraction and Behavioral Flexibility. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 140 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation aims to examine the relationship between abstraction and variability, with a focus on context variability. Three lines of research aim to address how people can use abstraction to flexibly maintain desired thoughts and behaviors as time passes and circumstances change. The first chapter provides a theoretical overview of the relationship between psychological distance, variability, and abstraction. In the second chapter, the aim is to demonstrate that presentation of objects across variable temporal contexts, compared to a single context, leads the objects to be represented at a higher, more global level of abstraction. In the third chapter, the aim is to show the effect of temporal context variability on abstract processing in the domain of analogical comparison. The prediction was that comparisons made across distributed contexts would be more abstract (i.e. based on relational features) than comparisons made within a single context (which would be more concrete, i.e. based on perceptual features). In the fourth chapter, the aim is to test a health behavior intervention that was constructed based on this theoretical framework. The intervention involved manipulating the instructions that people received for planning gym attendance in order to compare a rigid gym schedule and routine to a variable gym schedule and routine. The prediction was that the variable instructions would ultimately benefit people's rate of attendance in the long term. Taken together, the goals of these studies are (1) to elucidate the relationship between context variability and abstraction, and (2) to test the implications of this relationship in a real-world setting.

ISBN: 9798662552623Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Social psychology.
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Abstraction

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