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Social distance refers to the extent to which people experience a sense of familiarity (nearness and intimacy) or unfamiliarity (farness and difference) between themselves and people belonging to different social, ethnic, occupational, and religious groups from their own.
It is organized around four core issues: individual differences, which determine people's prefer ences for outcomes that promote either their own or their group's well-being; the study of dynamic processes based on simulations of artificial societies; social dilemmas that emerge in intergroup conflicts; and the effect of various types and source...
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 ...
Psychological distance is defined within the Construal-Level Theory (CLT), which was developed by Trope and Liberman . Their first approach referred only to the temporal distance and assumed that we judge a more distant event in time by few abstract characteristics (high-level construal).
3 maj 2021 · North American intellectual scene provides a different treatment of the phenomenon of social distance, connected to the need to respond to emerging social problems of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and social exclusion, derived from migration and cultural contact in complex societies.
A third conceptualisation of social distance focuses on the frequency and intensity of interactions between two groups. The main idea here is that the more the members of two groups interact, closer they are socially. This conception is similar to the approaches in sociological network theory, where the frequency of
Chapter 1 presents an introduction to social psychology and the research methods in social psychology, Chapter 2 presents the fundamental principles of social cognition, and Chapter 3 focuses on social affect.
