Saturday, March 03, 2007

Ascending eye neuron


“Decreasing an event's probability leads individuals to represent the event by its central, abstract, general features (high-level construal) rather than by its peripheral, concrete, specific features (low-level construal).” Wakslak, C J et al. ‘Seeing the Forest When Entry Is Unlikely: Probability and the Mental Representation of Events’. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 2006 Nov Vol 135(4) 641-653.