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Adaptive Psychological Distance: A Survival Perceived Temporal Distance Effect
Evolutionary Psychology ( IF 1.738 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 , DOI: 10.1177/1474704920948785
Daniel R. VanHorn 1
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Perceived temporal distance is explored using an evolutionary-functionalist perspective. Participants imagine themselves in one of three future scenarios: a survival scenario, a high-effort scenario, and a low-effort scenario. After imagining themselves in a future scenario, participants make a judgment of perceived temporal distance. Results suggest a survival perceived temporal distance effect (SPTD effect). Participants report the survival scenario feels closer to them in time than the high-effort and low-effort scenarios in experiments using a within-subjects design (Experiment 1) and a between-subjects design (Experiment 2). The perceived temporal closeness of a future survival scenario is highly adaptive as it motivates effective preparation for a future event of great importance. Furthermore, the perceived temporal distance findings reported here taken together with past research on perceived spatial distance illustrate the value of the functional perspective when conducting research on psychological distance. The SPTD effect is likely related to the well-documented survival-processing memory effect and is consistent with research demonstrating the cognitive overlap between remembering past events and imagining future events.



中文翻译:

自适应心理距离:生存感知的时间距离效应

感知的时间距离是使用进化功能主义者的观点探索的。参与者想象自己处于以下三种未来情景之一:生存情景,高努力情景和低努力情景。在将来的场景中想象自己之后,参与者对感知的时间距离做出判断。结果表明存在生存感知的时间距离效应(SPTD效应)。参加者报告说,在使用受试者内部设计(实验1)和受试者间设计(实验2)进行的实验中,生存情景比高强度和低强度情景在时间上更接近他们。感知到的未来生存场景在时间上的接近性具有高度的适应性,因为它可以有效地为未来的重大事件做好准备。此外,此处报告的感知时间距离发现与以往关于感知空间距离的研究一起显示了进行心理距离研究时功能观点的价值。SPTD效应可能与有据可查的生存过程记忆效应有关,并且与证明记忆过去事件和想象未来事件之间认知重叠的研究一致。

更新日期:2020-09-16
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