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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]).
The current study investigated how psychological distance afects people’s preference for direct and indirect speech in a narrative task. In three experiments, participants were instructed to first watch a video and then retell what happened in the video to an imagined/anticipated listener.
24 lis 2014 · Next, we provide an overview of two meta-analyses that examined the effect of distance on (a) construal level and (b) the downstream consequences of abstraction for evaluation, predic-tion, and behavior.
At the core of the proposed theory is a functional approach to construal levels, according to which mental construal processes serve to traverse psychological distances and switch between proximal and distal perspectives on objects.
29 cze 2016 · These examples suggest that some aspects of digital communication affect interpersonal distance, but the specific psychological mechanisms involved have rarely been addressed by those researching digital communication.
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).
1 kwi 2015 · Both psychological distance and the construal level of messages are malleable: Leaders can distance themselves from followers or get closer to them, and they can formulate more or less abstract messages.
