Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada.
University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2023 Dec;30(6):2196-2202. doi: 10.3758/s13423-023-02300-7. Epub 2023 May 11.
construal underlies mental travel. As a result, the human mind associates abstraction and psychological distance, whereby prompting abstract construal begets the inference of psychological distance - in time, social distance, hypotheticality, and physical space. That final distance is the only dimension that can be appraised visually, so would abstract construal impact judgments related to perceived visual distance? Two experiments provide evidence that abstract construal causes targets in the visual field to be judged as physically farther away. Further, the exacerbated sense of distance gives rise to related inferences about those visual targets (size and weight). These results deepen and broaden Construal Level Theory with practical implications for how people reason about the physical properties of objects - including but not limited to their physical distance.
构建是心理迁移的基础。因此，人类的思维将抽象和心理距离联系起来，从而促使抽象构建产生心理距离的推断——在时间、社会距离、假设性和物理空间上。最后一个距离是唯一可以通过视觉评估的维度，那么抽象构建是否会影响对感知视觉距离的判断？两项实验提供了证据，表明抽象构建会导致视野中的目标被判断为物理距离更远。此外，距离感的加剧会导致对这些视觉目标的相关推断（大小和重量）。这些结果深化和扩展了构建水平理论，对人们如何推理对象的物理属性具有实际意义——包括但不限于它们的物理距离。
