Spatial distance and mental construal of social events
Spatial distance and mental construal of social events
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01698.x
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发表时间：
2006-04-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Liberman, N
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作者：
Fujita, K;Henderson, MD;Liberman, N
建构层次理论认为，增加事件的空间距离会导致个体通过其中心的、抽象的、全局的特征（高层次的建构）而不是通过其外围的、具体的、局部的特征（低层次的建构）来表征事件。两个实验的结果表明，参与者更喜欢识别的行动，而不是作为手段，在更大程度上，当这些行动发生在一个空间上遥远的，而不是附近，位置（研究1），他们使用更抽象的语言来回忆空间上遥远的事件，与附近的事件相比（研究2）。这些研究结果表明，空间距离的事件与高水平的记忆，空间距离可以被概念化为一个维度的心理距离。
Construal-level theory proposes that increasing the reported spatial distance of events leads individuals to represent the events by their central, abstract, global features (high-level construal) rather than by their peripheral, concrete, local features (low-level construal). Results of two experiments indicated that participants preferred to identify actions as ends rather than as means to a greater extent when these actions occurred at a spatially distant, as opposed to near, location (Study 1), and that they used more abstract language to recall spatially distant events, compared with near events (Study 2). These findings suggest that spatially distant events are associated with high-level construals, and that spatial distance can be conceptualized as a dimension of psychological distance.