Abstract Eyal, Liberman, and Trope (2008) established that people judged moral
transgressions more harshly and virtuous acts more positively when the acts were
psychologically distant than close. In a series of conceptual and direct replications, Gong
and Medin (2012) came to the opposite conclusion. Attempting to resolve these
inconsistencies, we conducted four high-powered replication studies in which we varied
temporal distance (Studies 1 and 3), social distance (Study 2) or construal level (Study 4) …

Eyal, Liberman, and Trope (2008) established that people judged moral transgressions
more harshly and virtuous acts more positively when the acts were psychologically distant
than close. In a series of conceptual and direct replications, Gong and Medin (2012) came to
the opposite conclusion. Attempting to resolve these inconsistencies, we conducted four
high-powered replication studies in which we varied temporal distance (Studies 1 and 3),
social distance (Study 2) or construal level (Study 4), and registered their impact on moral …