Psychological distance as a means of evaluation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X21000490?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X21000490?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100900" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100900</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Psychological distance as a means of evaluation

Original language description

The psychological distance of objects (e.g., things, places, other people) affects how we think about them. Research suggests that psychological proximity and distance might be also related to positive and negative evaluations, respectively. In this study, we examined whether we can infer how children aged 13–16 years evaluate objects based on their statements regarding the psychological distance between themselves and these objects. Using a mixed-methods design, we verified the relationship between evaluations of objects and whether they are perceived as psychologically close or distant, in a sample of secondary school students. School subjects were predominantly used as evaluation objects. Students used a worksheet that allowed them to visually demonstrate perceived psychological distance between themselves and objects, and then they were asked to explain their choice. Results suggested a strong association between psychological distance and positive or negative evaluation. Thus, the implications of our findings may be relevant for psychodiagnostics.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50100 - Psychology and cognitive sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

New Ideas in Psychology

ISSN

0732-118X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2021

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

000690737500012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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