Feeling close
Emotional intensity reduces perceived psychological distance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6200326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leaf Van Boven (0000-0003-4187-8779, University of Colorado Boulder), Joanne Kane (Princeton University), A Peter Mcgraw (0000-0002-0373-1314, University of Colorado Boulder), Jeannette Dale |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 872-885 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/a0019262 |
| PMID | 20515244 |
| OpenAlex | W3123589820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 104 |
| References cited | 30 |
The results of 6 experiments indicate that emotional intensity reduces perceived psychological distance. People who described events emotionally rather than neutrally perceived those events as less psychologically distant, including embarrassing autobiographical events (Experiment 1), past and future dentist visits (Experiment 2), positive and negative events (Experiment 3), and a national tragedy (Experiment 6). People also perceived an event (dancing in front of an audience) as less psychologically distant when they were in a more emotionally arousing social role (of performer) than in a less emotionally arousing social role (of observer; Experiment 4). Two findings bolster the causal role of emotional intensity in reducing perceived psychological distance. First, reported emotional intensity was negatively correlated with perceived psychological distance and statistically mediated the effect of being in an emotionally arousing social role on perceived psychological distance (Experiment 4). Second, providing people with an alternative interpretation of their emotions (emotionally ambiguous whale songs) significantly reduced, even reversed, the negative correlation between self-reported emotional intensity and perceived psychological distance (Experiment 5). These findings about emotional intensity are consistent with the broader idea that perceived psychological distance is grounded in and influenced by the phenomenology of objective distance. Implications for theories of psychological distance, emotionality, and choice are discussed
Construal level theory · Emotionality · Feeling · Perception · Social distance · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
The Final Countdown
The Time Machine
P-curve
How to SHIFT Consumer Behaviors to be More Sustainable
“Proximising” climate change reconsidered
Intuition Versus Deliberation
When a bleak future comes closer
Chinese language bilinguistic system supports the emotional resonance interpretation model of foreign language effect
Construal-level theory and psychological distancing
The influence of fear of isolation on contact experience disclosure
So far yet so near
Climate change communication beyond the digital divide
Using Virtual Reality in E-Cigarette and Secondhand Aerosol Prevention Messages
The Rationality of Near Bias toward both Future and Past Events
Emotional Appraisal, Psychological Distance and Construal Level
Seeing far
Time perspectives and wisdom during zero-Covid
Phenomenological experience of a negative event when an older self is imagined
From concern to action
Waiting for a Match
Identifying predictors of teachers’ intention and willingness to teach about cancer by using direct and belief-based measures in the context of the theory of planned behaviour
Beneficial outcomes of (appropriate) nonverbal displays of negative affect in virtual teams
Anthropomorphism brings us closer
Using a serious game to communicate risk and minimize psychological distance regarding environmental pollution
Distance matters
What leads to consumer engagement towards short-form videos on Douyin? The moderating role of brand type
Effective advertising through language adaptation
Using emojis to build luxury brands
Subjective perception of time and decision inconsistency in interval effect
Effect of visual warmness of counseling room on primary school students' willingness to psychological help‐seeking
Do Time‐Biases Promote or Frustrate Wellbeing
The beauty of conspiracy
Investigating sustainable consumption behaviors
From a Distance
The Rise and Fall of Humor
Promoting Behaviors to Mitigate the Effects of Climate Change
The Power of Storyliving
From libertarian paternalism to liberalism
The exchange between citizens and elected officials
Constructing alternatives
Feeling the Hands of Time
Narrative transportation and emotional responses to storytelling maps
Culture and mood disorders
Seeing climate change
The Persuasive Impact of Narrative Richness in Antibiotic Stewardship Communication
Research on the influence of balance patch on players' character preference
Emotions predict policy support
Incorporating Virtual Reality in Public Health Campaigns
Effects of self–other decision‐making on time‐based intertemporal choice
How to reciprocate with love? The impact of gift‐giving on marital satisfaction
The psychological distance of memories
Narrative perspective shift at retrieval
Green tourism intentions driven by social media
The Attachment Mapping Protocol (AMP)
The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking
Beautiful mess effect
Mass shootings and the salience of guns as means of compensation for thwarted goals
Revising probability estimates
Commentary on the Special Issue
Newcomer calling shift
Personal experience and the ‘psychological distance’ of climate change
Mediated ecology in Fukushima
Narrative identity informs psychological adjustment
Geography Education and Climate Change
Wrinkles in Time and Drops in the Bucket
Seeing Risks or Solutions
A systematic review of applications, manipulations and manipulation checks of construal level theory in advertising
When hosts appear in different territories
Gamified environmental interpretation as a strategy for improving tourist behavior in support of sustainable tourism
Eating pigs, not Peppa Pig
When Less is better
Insiders Only
The Role of Temporal Distance on the Color of Future-Directed Imagery
Healthy ways of relating to past, present, and future self
Basking in projected glory
Influence of emotional valence on perceived psychological distance depends on emotional intensity
The relationships between affect dimensions and level of construal
Prototypical prospection
On the preconditions for large-scale collective action
Are knowledge ascriptions sensitive to social context
Against a normative asymmetry between near- and future-bias
Moved to speak up
Popcorn politics
On prospect theory, making choices for others, and the affective psychology of risk
When stepping outside the self is not enough
Dynamic distance
Close to you
Ignored or Rejected
How does social overload lead to withdrawal behavior? The case of social communities on social networking sites
The entertainment value of conspiracy theories
Bias towards the future
Look into the crystal ball
Relationship satisfaction and the subjective distance of past relational events
When an Hour Feels Shorter
How Am I Doing? Perceived Financial Well-Being, Its Potential Antecedents, and Its Relation to Overall Well-Being
So Close I Can Almost Sense It
Fired Up for the Future
Experiential Gifts Foster Stronger Social Relationships Than Material Gifts
Reading Fictional Stories and Winning Delayed Prizes
The Distinct Affective Consequences of Psychological Distance and Construal Level
Emotion And Adaptation
Looking forward, looking back
Point of view in personal memories
Discounting Time and Time Discounting
When Asking “Why” Does Not Hurt Distinguishing Rumination From Reflective Processing of Negative Emotions
Facilitating Adaptive Emotional Analysis
Field and observer modes of remembering
Functional Accounts of Emotions
Out of Control
The Psychology of Transcending the Here and Now
Process Analysis
A hot/cool-system analysis of delay of gratification
Negativity Bias, Negativity Dominance, and Contagion
Resolving social conflicts and field theory in social science
How temporal distance from past selves influences self‐perception
From chump to champ
Effect of memory perspective on retrospective causal attributions
Judging near and distant virtue and vice
The effect of level of construal on the temporal distance of activity enactment
The role of feasibility and desirability considerations in near and distant future decisions
Creeping dispositionism
Representations of the self in the near and distant future
Effect of temporal perspective on subjective confidence
When change in the self is mistaken for change in the world
It feels like yesterday
Fear, anger, and risk
Looking back in time
Misattribution, preparatory information, and speech anxiety
The Pros and Cons of Temporally Near and Distant Action
Bad is Stronger than Good
| Unique citing works | 104 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,43 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 102 |