Detecting regime shifts: the role of construal levels on system neglect

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Samuel N. Kirshner
Keyword(s):  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Construal Levels

Commentaries and Rejoinder on

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Gong ◽  
Douglas L. Medin ◽  
Tal Eyal ◽  
Nira Liberman ◽  
Yaacov Trope ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Psychological Distance ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Moral Cognition ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Moral Condemnation ◽  
Construal Levels

In the hope to resolve the two sets of opposing results concerning the effects of psychological distance and construal levels on moral judgment, Žeželj and Jokić (2014) conducted a series of four direct replications, which yielded divergent patterns of results. In our commentary, we first revisit the consistent findings that lower-level construals induced by How/Why manipulation lead to harsher moral condemnation than higher-level construals. We then speculate on the puzzling patterns of results regarding the role of temporal distance in shaping moral judgment. And we conclude by discussing the complexity of morality and propose that it may be important to incorporate cultural systems into the study of moral cognition.

Fear of Detection and Efficacy of Prevention: Using Construal Level to Encourage Health Behaviors

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 582-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chethana Achar ◽  
Nidhi Agrawal ◽  
Meng-Hua Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Cancer Detection ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Detection Tool ◽  
Illness Prevention ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Construal Levels

This research examines the psychological processes and factors that shape illness-detection versus illness-prevention health actions. Four experiments using contexts of mental health, skin cancer, and breast cancer show that illness detection evokes fear, which undermines engagement in detection behaviors. Considering detection at low (vs. high) levels of thought reduced fear and increased health persuasion. Illness prevention is driven by self-efficacy perceptions and considering prevention at high (vs. low) levels of thought increases persuasion. In further evidence of process, trait fear moderated the detection effects, and dispositional self-efficacy moderated the prevention effects. As an intervention, framing a detection action as serving illness-prevention goals increased people’s likelihood of engaging with an online breast cancer detection tool. These findings illuminate the psychology of detection as being distinct from the psychology of prevention, identify the role of fear in the consideration of health behaviors, and show contexts in which construal levels have divergent effects on health persuasion.

The Ostroms and the contestable nature of goods: beyond taxonomies and toward institutional polycentricity

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veeshan Rayamajhee ◽  
Pablo Paniagua
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Dynamic Features ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Geographical Factors ◽  
Inherent Nature

AbstractThis paper builds on the Ostroms' oeuvre to suggest that the binary Samuelsonian taxonomy of goods – or the ‘sterile dichotomy’, as Elinor Ostrom calls it – cannot serve as a reliable guide for public policy. Using the Ostroms' insights on co-production, institutional matching, and polycentricity, we argue that the ‘inherent’ nature of goods and their specific taxonomy are not static and definitive concepts but are instead contestable and dynamic features that are institutionally contingent. We explore four crucial mechanisms and/or contexts, not altogether unrelated, whereby the nature of goods becomes contestable and malleable: namely, (1) technological and geographical factors, (2) coproduction and entrepreneurial ingenuity, (3) bundling and unbundling of services, and (4) ideologies and regime shifts. This exercise has twofold purposes. First, we generalize the notion that there is nothing ‘inherent’ in the nature of goods and services and that they are fluid, heterogeneous, and malleable concepts. Second, we contribute to the debate on the provision of public goods and the role of civil society by highlighting the need for institutional malleability and diversity adaptive to changing technology, contexts, and institutional conditions.

Attributes Versus Benefits: The Role of Construal Levels and Appeal Type on the Persuasiveness of Marketing Messages

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Mauro da Costa Hernandez ◽  
Scott A. Wright ◽  
Filipe Ferminiano Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Construal Levels ◽  
Marketing Messages

scholarly journals Sudden collapse of a mesopredator reveals its complementary role in mediating rocky reef regime shifts

2018 ◽  
Vol 285 (1883) ◽  
pp. 20180553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenn M. Burt ◽  
M. Tim Tinker ◽  
Daniel K. Okamoto ◽  
Kyle W. Demes ◽  
Keith Holmes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Interactions ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
State Transitions ◽  
Kelp Forests ◽  
Rocky Reef ◽  
Sea Otter ◽  
Sea Star

While changes in the abundance of keystone predators can have cascading effects resulting in regime shifts, the role of mesopredators in these processes remains underexplored. We conducted annual surveys of rocky reef communities that varied in the recovery of a keystone predator (sea otter, Enhydra lutris ) and the mass mortality of a mesopredator (sunflower sea star, Pycnopodia helianthoides ) due to an infectious wasting disease. By fitting a population model to empirical data, we show that sea otters had the greatest impact on the mortality of large sea urchins, but that Pycnopodia decline corresponded to a 311% increase in medium urchins and a 30% decline in kelp densities. Our results reveal that predator complementarity in size-selective prey consumption strengthens top-down control on urchins, affecting the resilience of alternative reef states by reinforcing the resilience of kelp forests and eroding the resilience of urchin barrens. We reveal previously underappreciated species interactions within a ‘classic’ trophic cascade and regime shift, highlighting the critical role of middle-level predators in mediating rocky reef state transitions.

scholarly journals Regime shifts in the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Estuary: The role of concentrated benthic suspensions

2021 ◽  
pp. 106403
Author(s):  
Jianliang Lin ◽  
Bram C. van Prooijen ◽  
Leicheng Guo ◽  
Chunyan Zhu ◽  
Qing He ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Yangtze River ◽  
River Estuary ◽  
Regime Shifts ◽  
Yangtze River Estuary
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