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Traversing psychological distance. In this review, we examine the benefits of high-level, abstract mental representations for self-regulating with respect to psychologically distal objects (goals, events, and humans) by summarizing and extending our work on construal level theory (CLT; [1,2]).
Psychological distance is defined within the Construal-Level Theory (CLT), which was developed by Trope and Liberman ( 2003 ). 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 ). On the opposite, one judges an event which ...
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,...
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]
1 sty 2014 · PDF | Psychological distance is a cognitive separation between the self and other instances such as persons, events, or times. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
1 mar 1993 · Psychological distance appears to serve both organizing and explanatory functions across seemingly diverse sets of theoretical and research questions, such as differentiation of self in personality development; conceptual representation in cognitive development; dialogue in the development of communication skills; information processing in ...
Psychological distance is a subjective experience of how far or near something is from the self, comprising four dimensions: temporal dis-tance (present vs. future), social distance (self/similar vs. other/differ-ent), spatial distance (near vs. far) and hypothetical distance (is going to
