Zhang Qing, Wei Wei, Li Ningchen, Cao Wen
College of Politics and Public Administration, Shandong Youth University of Political Science, Jinan, China.
School of Marxism, Chongqing University of Science and Technology, Chongqing, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Dec 1;13:1011497. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011497. eCollection 2022.
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of psychological distance on spontaneous justice inferences.
Two experiments were conducted using the probe recognition paradigm to directly examine whether psychological distance affects spontaneous justice inferences. In Experiment 1, the spatial distance of justice actions from the perceivers was manipulated. In Experiment 2, temporal distance was manipulated.
Consistent with our expectations, the results of Experiments 1 and 2 (for spatial distance and temporal distance, respectively) consistently demonstrated the effect of psychological distance on spontaneous justice inferences. In concrete terms, participants made stronger spontaneous justice inferences when confronted with situation descriptions of justice-implying events occurring in a spatially distant location than in a proximal location (Experiment 1) and in the distant-future condition than in the near-future condition (Experiment 2).
These findings indicate that psychological distance can influence influence simplicity, unintentional processing of justice inferences.
本研究旨在考察心理距离对自发正义推断的影响。
进行了两项实验，采用探测识别范式直接检验心理距离是否会影响自发正义推断。在实验1中，操纵了正义行为与感知者之间的空间距离。在实验2中，操纵了时间距离。
与我们的预期一致，实验1和实验2的结果（分别针对空间距离和时间距离）一致证明了心理距离对自发正义推断的影响。具体而言，当面对暗示正义事件发生在空间遥远位置而非近端位置的情境描述时（实验1），以及面对遥远未来情境而非近期未来情境时（实验2），参与者做出了更强的自发正义推断。
这些发现表明，心理距离会影响对正义推断的简单、无意加工。
