Sofia Calderon

Biographic Data

ID5862287
NAMESofia Calderon
GIVEN NAMESSofia
FAMILY NAMECalderon
SIGNATURECALDERÓN S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Gothenburg
ORCID0000-0002-7733-9075
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Effects of Psychological Distance on Mental Abstraction

    Open AccessSofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Methods and Practices…2026

    Construal-level theory (CLT) proposes that psychological distance influences the level of abstraction at which something is mentally construed: Things perceived as less probable (likelihood) or further away from the here (spatial distance), now (temporal distance), or self (social distance) are thought about more abstractly. In this international multilab study, we tested four basic hypotheses derived from core assumptions of CLT and explore pote…

  • Subjective likelihood and the construal level of future events

    Sofia Calderon, Erik Mac Giolla et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2020References: 8

    C. J. Wakslak, Y. Trope, N. Liberman, and R. Alony (2006) examined the effect of manipulating the likelihood of future events on level of construal (i.e., mental abstraction). Over 7 experiments, they consistently found that subjectively unlikely (vs. likely) future events were more abstractly (vs. concretely) construed. This well-cited, but understudied finding has had a major influence on the construal level theory (CLT) literature: Likelihood …