Automatic processing of psychological distance: Evidence from a stroop task
Automatic processing of psychological distance: Evidence from a stroop task
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DOI：
10.1037/0096-3445.136.4.610
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发表时间：
2007-11-01
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Algom, Daniel
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作者：
Bar-Anan, Yoav;Liberman, Nira;Algom, Daniel
Stroop任务的图片-单词版本被用来测试心理距离的自动激活，通过带有各种心理距离含义的单词：暂时的（明天，一年后），社会的（朋友，敌人）和假设性的（肯定，也许）。这些图片暗示了深度，文字看起来离观察者相对较近或较远。当单词的内隐心理距离与其空间距离相匹配时，参与者对单词的空间距离的分类速度更快（例如，地理上接近的单词被分类为“朋友”比被分类为“敌人”要快）。研究结果与心理距离是自动获得的观点一致，即使它与人们当前的目标没有直接关系，并表明心理距离是意义的一个重要维度，与空间距离、时间距离、社会距离和假设性一样。
A picture-word version of the Stroop task was used to test the automatic activation of psychological distance by words carrying various senses of psychological distance: temporal (tomorrow, in a year), social (friend, enemy), and hypotheticality (sure, maybe). The pictures implied depth, with the words appearing relatively close to or distant from the observer. The participants classified the spatial distance of words faster when the word's implicit psychological distance matched its spatial distance (e.g., a geographically close word was classified faster when it was "friend" than when it was "enemy"). The findings are consistent with the idea that psychological distance is accessed automatically, even when it is not directly related to people's current goals, and suggest that psychological distance is an important dimension of meaning, common to spatial distance, temporal distance, social distance, and hypotheticality.