Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, PR China.
Percept Mot Skills. 2012 Dec;115(3):752-4. doi: 10.2466/27.07.21.PMS.115.6.752-754.
Stamps found that the effects of visual cues on the perception of threat decrease with distance, even when the range of distance is extended to 45 m. The present comment suggests that the findings Stamps obtained in a Western culture may not hold in other cultures. The robustness of these findings might be improved by using real targets at actual physical distances and "necessarily high" threats. Further studies are needed to examine whether other dimensions of psychological distance have the same effect on threat perception as does spatial distance. There is also a need to examine whether perceived threats have a significant effect on the perception of spatial distance.
邮票发现，即使距离范围扩展到 45 米，视觉线索对威胁感知的影响也会随距离的增加而减弱。本评论认为，邮票在西方文化中获得的发现可能不适用于其他文化。通过使用实际目标和“必然高”的威胁，可以提高这些发现的稳健性。需要进一步的研究来检验其他心理距离维度是否对威胁感知产生与空间距离相同的影响。还需要检验感知到的威胁是否对空间距离的感知有重大影响。
