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14 mar 2020 · Psychological distance is a tool for assessing the fit or integration between the perceptual subject and object, which is an important determinant of whether primary, essential characteristics or secondary, peripheral characteristics are used as the basis for evaluation.
Psychological distance is the degree to which people feel removed from a phenomenon. Distance in this case is not limited to the physical surroundings, rather it could also be abstract. Distance can be defined as the separation between the self and other instances like persons, events, knowledge, or time. [1]
24 mar 2020 · Geographical psychology aims to study the spatial distribution of psychological phenomenon at different levels of geographical analysis and their relations to macro-level important societal outcomes. The geographical perspective provides a new way of understanding interactions between humankind psychological processes and distal macro-environments.
1 paź 2016 · This paper critically reviews the current status of the concept of distance in human geography in order to argue that recent experimentally-driven work in construal-level theory offers ample opportunities for recasting distance as a key geographical trope.
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 ).
31 paź 2021 · Psychological distance describes the subjectively perceived distance to certain objects, events, or actions (Liberman & Trope, 2008; McDonald et al., 2015) and is characterized by four dimensions: geographical, temporal, social, and hypothetical distance (Liberman & Trope, 2014).
1. Introduction. This critical review aims to reconstruct distance as a central concept to contemporary human geography by subjectifying it, that is, by focusing on the subjective experiencing of distance.
