There is a large literature showing the relationship between psychological distance to events and their mental abstraction when human think about these events. Existing scholarship equates psychological distance directly to the distance in time or space, social distance or hypothecality. We argue that there is yet another dimension that has not been considered so far: the mental resolution of these events. Humans can ‘zoom in’ or ‘zoom out’, thus changing the psychological distance to events at the same temporal, physical, social or probabilistic distance. Our study investigates the effect of manipulating the temporal distance and also temporal resolution on the perceived mental abstraction of events.