# Professor Yaacov Trope on psychological distance

1 Faculty News June 16, 2015 ![Harvard Business Review logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032358.jpg?itok=cHztGP4H)>

Excerpt from [Harvard Business Review](https://hbr.org/2015/06/why-some-of-us-dread-going-on-vacation) -- "Why is it that a vacation seems like a great idea when we first plan it, but feels like more and more of a burden the closer it gets? It all comes down to distance. Over the past 15 years, quite a bit of research has focused on what [Yaacov Trope](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/yaacov-trope) and Nira Liberman call construal level theory. The idea is that the more distant some object or event is for you, the more abstractly you think about it."

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