Karla S Klas, Peter G Vlahos, Michael J McCully, David R Piche, Stewart C Wang
School-based prevention program associated with increased short- and long-term retention of safety knowledge
Journal of burn care & research : official publication of the American Burn Association
six studies investigate whether distant future time perspective facilitates abstract thinking impedes concrete thinking altering level mental representations construed experiments 13 participants envisioned lives imagined engaging task 1 year later opposed next day subsequently performed better series insight tasks experiments 4 5 distal perspective found improve creative generation abstract solutions moreover experiment 5 demonstrated similar effect temporal distance manipulated indirectly making participants imagine lives general year versus tomorrow prior performance experiment 6 distant time perspective undermined rather enhanced analytical problem solving