Stephan Elena, Liberman Nira, Trope Yaacov
Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
J Exp Soc Psychol. 2011 Mar 1;47(2):397-402. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.11.001.
Psychological causes of social distance were examined from the perspective of Construal Level Theory (CLT; Liberman, Trope, & Stephan, 2007), which predicts that temporal distance from and abstract construal of a social target would create perception of social distance. Our studies demonstrate that expectations for temporally remote (versus proximal) social interaction produce greater social distance from a target person, measured as reduced familiarity (Study 1) and as reduced similarity to the self (Study 2). We also show that a more abstract, higher level construal of a social target results in less familiarity (Study 3) and in less allocation of resources (Study 4). The research sheds light on how social closeness can be promoted or hindered by previously unaddressed psychological factors.
从解释水平理论（CLT；利伯曼、特罗普和斯特凡，2007）的角度研究了社会距离的心理原因，该理论预测与社会目标的时间距离和抽象解释会产生社会距离感。我们的研究表明，对时间上遥远（相对于临近）的社会互动的期望会使与目标人物的社会距离更大，这通过降低熟悉度（研究1）和降低与自我的相似度（研究2）来衡量。我们还表明，对社会目标进行更抽象、更高层次的解释会导致熟悉度降低（研究3）和资源分配减少（研究4）。这项研究揭示了先前未被探讨的心理因素如何促进或阻碍社会亲近感。
