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89
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Yaacov Trope is affiliated with New York University in the United States and specializes primarily in psychology, with significant contributions to social psychology, applied psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and sociology and political science.

Their research covers a variety of topics within behavioral health and interventions, cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, action observation and synchronization, mental health research topics, embodied and extended cognition, and language, metaphor, and cognition.

Among recent publications by Yaacov Trope are:

  • Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science, 2021, Nature
  • Regulatory Scope and Its Mental and Social Supports, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Person-centered cognition: The presence of people in a visual scene promotes relational reasoning, 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Abstract thinking facilitates aggregation of information., 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Construing hypotheticals: How hypotheticality affects level of abstraction, 2023, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Yaacov Trope frequently collaborates with several scholars, including:

  • Nira Liberman (7 joint publications)
  • Kentaro Fujita (2 joint publications)
  • Guy Grinfeld (2 joint publications)
  • Cheryl Wakslak (2 joint publications)
  • David A. Kalkstein (2 joint publications)

The majority of Trope's research has been published in venues such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Academy of Management Proceedings, and Nature.

In 2012, Yaacov Trope was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Construal-Level Theory of Psychological Distance

    Yaacov Trope;Nira Liberman

  • Dual-process theories in social psychology

    Shelly Chaiken;Yaacov Trope

  • The role of feasibility and desirability considerations in near and distant future decisions: A test of temporal construal theory.

    Nira Liberman;Yaacov Trope

  • Construal Levels and Psychological Distance: Effects on Representation, Prediction, Evaluation, and Behavior

    Yaacov Trope;Nira Liberman;Cheryl Wakslak

  • Construal Levels and Self-Control

    Kentaro Fujita;Yaacov Trope;Nira Liberman;Maya Levin-Sagi

  • The Psychology of Transcending the Here and Now

    Nira Liberman;Yaacov Trope

  • The effect of temporal distance on level of mental construal.

    Nira Liberman;Michael D Sagristano;Yaacov Trope

  • Temporal construal and time-dependent changes in preference

    Yaacov Trope;Nira Liberman

  • You focus on the forest when you’re in charge of the trees: Power priming and abstract information processing

    Pamela K. Smith;Yaacov Trope

  • Identification and Inferential Processes in Dispositional Attribution.

    Yaacov Trope

  • Spatial Distance and Mental Construal of Social Events

    Kentaro Fujita;Marlone D. Henderson;Juliana Eng;Yaacov Trope

  • Body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotions

    Hillel Aviezer;Yaacov Trope;Alexander Todorov;Alexander Todorov

  • The influence of abstract and concrete mindsets on anticipating and guiding others' self-regulatory efforts ☆

    Antonio L. Freitas;Peter M. Gollwitzer;Yaacov Trope

  • Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension : Implications for perception of others' actions

    Ido Liviatan;Yaacov Trope;Nira Liberman

  • The Association between Psychological Distance and Construal Level: Evidence from an Implicit Association Test.

    Yoav Bar-Anan;Nira Liberman;Yaacov Trope

  • Counteractive self-control in overcoming temptation.

    Yaacov Trope;Ayelet Fishbach

  • Reflexion and reflection: A social cognitive neuroscience approach to attributional inference

    Matthew D. Lieberman;Ruth Gaunt;Daniel T. Gilbert;Yaacov Trope

  • Seeing the forest when entry is unlikely: probability and the mental representation of events.

    Cheryl J. Wakslak;Yaacov Trope;Nira Liberman;Rotem Alony

  • Construal level theory and consumer behavior.

    Nira Liberman;Yaacov Trope;Cheryl Wakslak

  • Dual-process theories of the social mind.

    Jeffrey W. Sherman;Bertram Gawronski;Yaacov Trope

  • Construal Levels and Self-Control

    Yaacov Trope;Kentaro Fujita;Nira Liberman;Maya Levin-Sagi

Frequent Co-Authors

Nira Liberman
Nira Liberman Tel Aviv University
Ran R. Hassin
Ran R. Hassin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ayelet Fishbach
Ayelet Fishbach University of Chicago
Bertram Gawronski
Bertram Gawronski The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Algom
Daniel Algom Tel Aviv University
Jeffrey W. Sherman
Jeffrey W. Sherman University of California, Davis
Alexander Todorov
Alexander Todorov University of Chicago
E. Tory Higgins
E. Tory Higgins Columbia University
Shelly Chaiken
Shelly Chaiken New York University
Melissa J. Ferguson
Melissa J. Ferguson Yale University

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