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Distance education and distance learning: some psychological considerations
Distance Education, 1983Face‐to‐face education and distance education, viewed as differing sets of organisational provisions for the fostering of learning, emphasize different kinds of learning processes, and depend upon somewhat different psychological properties in learners. Nonetheless, all practical learning settings, whether they are labelled ‘school’, ‘adult education’,
Arthur J. Cropley, Thomas N. Kahl
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Promoting Forgiveness Through Psychological Distance
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016We examined whether psychological distance from interpersonal transgressions can promote victim forgiveness via high-level construal. Participants responded to conflict vignettes. In Experiment 1, we found a positive effect of temporal distance on forgiveness, mediated by construal level.
Sana Rizvi, D. Ramona Bobocel
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Psychological distance to reward in monkeys
Behavioural Processes, 1993A concurrent-chains schedule was employed to examine crab-eating macaques' choice between segmented and unsegmented fixed-interval 30-s schedules. A stimulus change occurred during one of the fixed-interval schedules (segmented schedule), while no stimulus change occurred during the other (unsegmented schedule).
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On psychological similarity and psychological distance
1975A distinction is commonly drawn between “Content” and “Distance” models of similarity. The set theoretic interpretation of Content models is developed using Restle’s (1959, 1961) structures. It is found that for spaces in which all dimensions are prothetic, a normalised type of model, similar to many vector content models, is correct: for x, yεIRn, ß ...
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Association as psychological distance
2009One mechanism underlying the acquisition of interpersonal attitudes is the formation of an association between a valenced unconditioned stimulus (US) and an affectively neutral conditioned stimulus (CS). However, a stimulus (e.g., a person) is not always and necessarily perceived to be unambiguously positive or negative.
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Psychological distance in consumer psychology: Consequences and antecedents
Consumer Psychology Review, 2019AbstractWherever consumers envision faraway locations, remember the past, predict the future, consider the perspective of others, or entertain remote possibilities, their minds extrapolate beyond what lies in front of them to something psychologically distant. Conjuring and considering that which is psychologically distant thus lies at the heart of how
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The psychology of psychic distance: Antecedents of asymmetric perceptions
Journal of World Business, 2016Already on its introduction into the international business literature, the concept of ‘psychic distance’ implied asymmetry in the distance perceptions between country pairs, a characteristic corroborated in subsequent empirical studies. However, predominant empirical operationalizations and their theoretical underpinnings assume psychic distances to ...
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Spatial Orientation Shrinks and Expands Psychological Distance
Psychological Science, 2014Being objectively close to or far from a place changes how people perceive the location of that place in a subjective, psychological sense. In the six studies reported here, we investigated whether people’s spatial orientation (defined as moving toward or away from a place) will produce similar effects—by specifically influencing psychological ...
Sam J, Maglio, Evan, Polman
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Psychological Distance and Group Interventions
Transactional Analysis Journal, 1992English's (1975) concept of the three-cornered contract is developed further by adding the idea of psychological distance and then combining these ideas with other TA concepts and group leadership ...
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Psychological distance to science
Trends in Cognitive SciencesPsychological distance to science reflects how people perceive science from the perspective of the self. For many, science represents a distant endeavor that is irrelevant to day-to-day life. Research from my lab finds that distance to science correlates with, and predicts, science rejection across domains. Bringing science closer improves trust.
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