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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).
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 lip 2014 · We define psychological distance as the extent of divergence from direct experience of me, here and now along the dimensions of time, space, social perspective, or hypotheticality. Table I provides examples of the ways in which psychological distance has been varied in previous research.
psychological distance and perspective taking. This work underlines the potential importance of illustrations for the ways in which readers not only engage with books, but also with the ideas portrayed in them. 1.1. Psychological Distance. Trope and Liberman (2003) proposed that psychological distance affects cognitive processing.
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,...
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]).
9 kwi 2014 · Traversing psychological distance is indispensable for adaptive human functioning. The course of human evolution, the (much shorter) course of human history, and the (even shorter) course of child development are associated with traversing increasingly greater distances.
