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Preferred Levels of Agency: Development and validation of the Goal Abstraction Preference (GAP) scale

2026-03-15

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<p>Goals are hierarchically organized, such that the same action can be represented at either a concrete or abstract level. While existing theories account for variability in goal abstraction, they primarily conceptualize this variability as situational or contingent on performance rather than as reflecting a stable, domain-general preference. We propose that Goal Abstraction Preference (GAP) is a trait-like dimen...

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Literature Corpus work: 14df0d41-78f1-5d66-b645-b297200c9264
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hfzk3_v1

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