Happy today, happy tomorrow: The (non-)effect of temporal distance on judgments of Life Satisfaction

► Construal Level Theory (CLT) is investigated in regard to episodic memory. ► Temporal judgments of Life Satisfaction (LS) were used in the study. ► LS was linked to abstract levels of construal. ► However, LS was not influenced by temporal distance as predicted by CLT. ► Judgments based on episodic memory might not be influenced as predicted by CLT.