11. This would suggest that self-construal influences a person's self-esteem. 12. These researchers encourage counselors to measure self-construals upon intake to help guide treatment. 13. Strategic construals also influence the degree to which categories are believed to characterise other people. 14. Low level construal is when people think more concretely and is associated with psychological proximity. 15. Lee Ross's concept of na�ve realism is especially important in the context of construal . 16. In 1946, Solomon Asch directed one of the earliest known empirical studies of human construal . 17. Lastly, self-construal is how the individual views the self in comparison to the others. 18. These individuals see avoiding hurt feelings as more significant than individuals who use independent self-construals . 19. On a linguistic construal , externalism is the thesis that the meaning of a word is environmentally determined. 20. Such interaction has a crucial role in the experimental activity that informs the incremental development of the construal .