Transcending the "here": The effect of spatial distance on social judgment

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 845-856

  Henderson, Marlone D ^a,c   Fujita, Kentaro ^a,d   Trope, Yaacov ^a   Liberman, Nira ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Construal; Events; Extrapolation; Psychological distance; Schematic representations; Social judgments; Spatial distance; Unitization

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 33750369376     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.5.845     Document Type: Article

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