Carrera, PilarMuñoz, DoloresCaballero, AmparoAlbarracín, DoloresFernández Sedano, Iciar2024-06-112024-06-112012-04-130022-1031; eISSN: 1096-0465https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2012.04.001https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/22428Three studies examined how the use of the present versus the past tense in recalling a past experience influences behavioral intentions. Experiment 1 revealed a stronger influence of past behaviors on drinking intentions when participants self-reported an episode of excessive drinking using the present tense. Correspondingly, there was a stronger influence of attitudes towards excessive drinking when participants self-reported the episode in the past tense. Experiments 2 and 3 liked this effect to changes in construal level (Liberman, Trope, & Stephan, 2007; Trope & Liberman, 2003), with the present tense being similar to a concrete construal level and the past tense being similar to an abstract construal level.enAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacionalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessartículoVerb tenseConstrual levelPast behaviorAttitudeBehavioral intentions