Feeling Close: Emotional Intensity Reduces Perceived Psychological Distance
Feeling Close: Emotional Intensity Reduces Perceived Psychological Distance
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DOI：
10.1037/a0019262
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发表时间：
2010-06-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Dale, Jeannette
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作者：
Van Boven, Leaf;Kane, Joanne;Dale, Jeannette
6个实验的结果表明，情绪强度降低知觉心理距离。那些情绪化而不是中立地描述事件的人认为这些事件在心理上不那么遥远，包括令人尴尬的自传事件（实验1），过去和未来的牙医访问（实验2），积极和消极的事件（实验3），以及国家悲剧（实验6）。人们还认为，当他们处于一个更情绪化的社会角色（表演者）时，比处于一个不那么情绪化的社会角色（观察者）时，心理距离更小（在观众面前跳舞）。两项发现支持了情绪强度在减少感知心理距离中的因果作用。首先，报告的情绪强度与感知的心理距离呈负相关，并在统计上介导的情绪唤起的社会角色感知的心理距离的影响（实验4）。第二，为人们提供对他们情绪的另一种解释（情感上模棱两可的鲸鱼之歌），显著降低，甚至逆转了自我报告的情绪强度和感知心理距离之间的负相关（实验5）。这些关于情绪强度的发现与更广泛的观点是一致的，即感知的心理距离是基于客观距离的现象学并受其影响。心理距离，情感和选择理论的影响进行了讨论。
The results of 6 experiments indicate that emotional intensity reduces perceived psychological distance. People who described events emotionally rather than neutrally perceived those events as less psychologically distant, including embarrassing autobiographical events (Experiment 1), past and future dentist visits (Experiment 2), positive and negative events (Experiment 3), and a national tragedy (Experiment 6). People also perceived an event (dancing in front of an audience) as less psychologically distant when they were in a more emotionally arousing social role (of performer) than in a less emotionally arousing social role (of observer; Experiment 4). Two findings bolster the causal role of emotional intensity in reducing perceived psychological distance. First, reported emotional intensity was negatively correlated with perceived psychological distance and statistically mediated the effect of being in an emotionally arousing social role on perceived psychological distance (Experiment 4). Second, providing people with an alternative interpretation of their emotions (emotionally ambiguous whale songs) significantly reduced, even reversed, the negative correlation between self-reported emotional intensity and perceived psychological distance (Experiment 5). These findings about emotional intensity are consistent with the broader idea that perceived psychological distance is grounded in and influenced by the phenomenology of objective distance. Implications for theories of psychological distance, emotionality, and choice are discussed.