Glaser Tina, Lewandowski Joshua, Düsing Jessica
Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany.
Joshua Lewandowski, School of Behavioral & Organizational Sciences, Claremont Graduate University, California, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2015 Mar 10;10(3):e0119108. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119108. eCollection 2015.
Construal Level Theory (CLT) [1] defines psychological distance as any object, event, or person that cannot be experienced by the self in the here and now. The goal of the present research was to demonstrate that feelings of uncertainty are closely linked to the concept of psychological distance. Two experiments tested the assumption that spatial distance and uncertainty are bidirectionally related. In the first experiment, we show that perceived spatial distance leads to a feeling of uncertainty. The second experiment revealed that a feeling of uncertainty leads to a perception of greater distance. By demonstrating that distance is closely tied to uncertainty, the present research extends previous research on both distance and uncertainty by incorporating previously unexplained findings within CLT. Implications of these findings such as the role of uncertainty within CLT are discussed.
解释水平理论（CLT）[1]将心理距离定义为自我当下无法体验到的任何物体、事件或人。本研究的目的是证明不确定性的感觉与心理距离的概念密切相关。两项实验检验了空间距离与不确定性双向相关的假设。在第一个实验中，我们表明感知到的空间距离会导致不确定感。第二个实验表明，不确定感会导致对更大距离的感知。通过证明距离与不确定性密切相关，本研究通过将CLT中先前无法解释的发现纳入其中，扩展了先前关于距离和不确定性的研究。讨论了这些发现的意义，例如不确定性在CLT中的作用。
