[6] As a scholar from Israel, Trope received a Fulbright fellowship to conduct research with Eugene Bernstein at the University of Michigan from 1979–1980.
[8] He is especially interested in the process of construal, or how people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world and make connections.
With his colleague Nira Liberman, Trope developed construal level theory[9] to account for relations between perceived psychological distance and the extent to which one's thinking about a given topic or situation will tend to more concrete vs. more abstract.
Other work has focused specifically on temporal construal, or how distance in time affects one's perceptions of present and future events.
[13] Trope and his colleagues found that body language provides a more accurate indicator of how one is feeling as compared to facial expressions—a finding that runs counter to what people generally think.