On the relations between distinct aspects of psychological distance: An ecological basis of construal-level theory

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1014-1021

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Jung, Janis ^a   Wänke, Michaela ^b   Alexopoulos, Theodore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Ecological correlation; Personality distance; Reality distance; Spatial distance; Temporal distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863316487     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.03.013     Document Type: Article

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