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The relationship between psychology and communication research can be specified with reference to three key types of communication processes in the context of the human cognitive architecture framework introduced above.
involve a psychological distance between people that is similar to actual physical distance. For example, the school administrator talks down to a staff member, who resents this attitude, and this resentment separates them, thereby blocking opportunity for effective communication.
1 sty 2014 · Psychological distance is based on subjective perception (Wang et al., 2019), which can be posited from four dimensions including space (where the event occurs), society (to whom), time (when...
17 sie 2018 · Prior research identified psychological distance – the egocentric distance between a communicator and recipient – as one important factor influencing the choice of visual and verbal communication. For example, Amit, Wakslak, and Trope (2013) showed that people in-creasingly choose to use visual means of representation over verbal
Traversing psychological distance involves going beyond direct experience, and includes planning, per-spective taking, and contemplating counterfactuals. Consistent with this view, temporal, spatial, and social distances as well as hypotheticality are associated, affect each other, and are inferred from one another.
1 kwi 2010 · Supporting this analysis, research shows (a) that the various distances are cognitively related to each other, (b) that they similarly influence and are influenced by level of mental construal,...
Download reference work entry PDF. Definition. Psychological distance is a cognitive separation between the self and other instances such as persons, events, or times. Description. Dimensions. Psychological distance is defined within the Construal-Level Theory (CLT), which was developed by Trope and Liberman ( 2003 ).
