Higher-Level Construal and Broadened Attentional Focus Is Associated with an Implicit Approach Bias to Desserts

The present study was designed to explore the relationship between construal level, attentional focus, and automatic approach-avoidance to dessert stimuli. Those with higher level construals evidenced an approach bias toward dessert images on a joystick Approach-Avoidance Task, r(95)=.276, p=.007, as did those exhibiting a more global attentional focus r(95)=.198, p=.054.