Expansive versus contractive relational scope

扩展关系范围与收缩关系范围

• 批准号: 1053128
• 负责人: yaacov trope
• 金额: $ 24.99万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1053128&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expansive; versus; contractive; relational; scope

Other people with whom we interact can be distanced from us socially, geographically, or temporally. Individuals can cross this distance in a minimal way, confining their social relationships to those individuals who are psychologically close to them, or they may expand their horizons to include a more diverse and psychologically distant set of individuals. Relational scope refers to the extent to which one's social relationships extend to people who are distant from oneself. This research explores how people transcend the distance that separates them from others. The researchers examine the psychological processes that prompt expansive relational scope and contractive relational scope, arguing that greater degrees of abstraction allow more expansive relational scope. They predict that communication intended for a distant (vs. proximal) recipient will focus to a greater extent on core aspects, will use a more abstract medium, and will be less grounded in physical gestures. Moreover, when communications are more abstract along these dimensions, senders should be more expansive and communicate with more distant recipients. The present research on relational scope promises to shed light on when we will expand or contract the scope of our relations, limiting our interactions to those that are proximal to us or expanding our relationships to include those that are more distant. Furthermore, by highlighting the way that mental construal processes are used to traverse psychological distance, this research emphasizes the dramatic way that the distance of others shapes our interaction with them. In so doing, it ultimately offers suggestions for facilitating effective communication and learning among the increasingly diverse groups of individuals. The proposal addresses training and development of graduate students and undergraduate students. The research findings would be disseminated through research conferences and traditional publications (empirical journal articles). Undergraduates in the business program at USC would also be incorporated into the research, which could extend basic psychological to students who would not normally be involved in it.

与我们互动的其他人可能在社交、地理或时间上与我们保持距离。 个人可以以最小的方式跨越这个距离，将他们的社会关系限制在那些心理上接近他们的人，或者他们可以扩大他们的视野以包括更多样化和心理上疏远的个人。 关系范围是指一个人的社会关系延伸到与自己较远的人的程度。 这项研究探讨了人们如何超越与他人之间的距离。 研究人员研究了导致扩张关系范围和收缩关系范围的心理过程，认为更高程度的抽象允许更扩张的关系范围。 他们预测，针对远处（相对于近处）接收者的通信将更大程度地关注核心方面，将使用更抽象的媒介，并且更少基于身体手势。 此外，当通信在这些维度上更加抽象时，发送者应该更加广泛并与更远的接收者进行通信。 目前关于关系范围的研究有望揭示我们何时扩大或缩小我们的关系范围，将我们的互动限制在距离我们最近的人或扩大我们的关系以包括那些更远的人。 此外，通过强调心理解释过程用于跨越心理距离的方式，这项研究强调了他人的距离以戏剧性的方式塑造了我们与他们的互动。 在此过程中，它最终为促进日益多样化的个人群体之间的有效沟通和学习提供了建议。 该提案涉及研究生和本科生的培训和发展。研究结果将通过研究会议和传统出版物（实证期刊文章）传播。南加州大学商业项目的本科生也将被纳入这项研究，这可以将基本心理学扩展到通常不会参与其中的学生。