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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"psychological distance"”.
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Three Essays on Psychological Distance in Supply Chains
… disruptions, which all influence perceptions of psychological distances. Using controlled experiments, this thesis addresses the research question of whether psychological distances affect the supply chain managers’ decision making and if so, how? The first study evaluates how psychological …
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The Relationship Between Psychological Distance and Effective Task Performance
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Preschoolers' Saving Performance: The Role of Budgeting and Psychological Distance
The current study explored how creating a budget for oneself versus another might improve preschoolers' saving performance. Children were given tokens to purchase later available more-preferred prizes instead of spending them on immediately available less-preferred prizes. N=75 three- to …
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Relationships between motivation and psychological distance in a forest recreation environment
… These were the force of motivation and the psychological distance to the user's destination in a recreation environment. Time spent hiking to the destination was considered a function of force, and physical distance was considered a function of the psychological distance to the destination. …
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Pedestrians walking speed and psychological distance at bus terminal and shopping mall
The studies of pedestrians walking speed and psychological distance in both indoor and outdoor are important for understanding the walking behaviours especially in the Malaysian context. In order to obtain relevant information on pedestrians walking behaviours, it is essential to conduct some …
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Three Studies Examining the Effects of Psychological Distance on Judgment and Decision Making in Accounting
… studies, that center on the effects of psychological distance on judgment and decision-making in accounting. Construal level theory (CLT) of psychological distance (Liberman and Trope 1998; Trope and Liberman 2003), a framework recently developed in the field of social psychology, …
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How Message Framing and Activating Constructs Reduce Psychological Distance: Strengthening Connections Between Supporters and Beneficiaries
… on customers’ pre-existing personal preferences? Psychological distance theory suggests that people are more likely to support social initiatives when they perceive them as psychologically close. If that is the case, then reducing psychological distance should encourage greater engagement. …
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The Role of Psychological Distance in Influencing Consumer’s Future Behavioural Intention in A Digital Service Encounter: A Cross-National Investigation of Motor Insurance – UK And Nigeria
… relevant cues of the mediating role of psychological distance particularly, temporal, social and physical/spatial distance dimensions was established, as well as the moderator including Hofstede’s cultural dimension of individualism/collectivism are identified. Overall, the findings …
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The Informed Human Firewall: The Impact of Knowledge Dimensions on Employees' Secure Behavior
… the impact of knowledge mechanisms on PMT psychological processes. This study explains the key psychological processes that influence employees’ secure behavior and seeks to understand how organizational knowledge mechanisms influence these key psychological processes that form threats …
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Vietos deiksės raiška šiaurės žemaičių kretingiškių šnektoje /
… deictic words may depend not only on physical or psychological distance but also on the semantic features of the referent. Referents with the features ‘harmful’ and ‘big’ are more likely to be assigned to distal demonstrative pronouns and adverbs of place. In contrast, referents with the features …
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Towards an explication of the presence effects on information processing and persuasion: A construal level framework
… reasonable way of understanding the underlying psychological mechanism of the presence effects on persuasion. Drawing on presence theory, construal level theory, and the dual process model of persuasion, this study proposes a conceptual model that posits construal level as a key variable that …
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Soundscape and the Experience of Positive Silence
… quality of attention are explored. In so doing, psychological theories of extended mind, construal level and psychological distance are considered in relation to the web of interactions between individual and soundscape. In all, these investigations revealed auditory distraction as a feature of …
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Emotion Regulation Through Distancing: Developing a Novel Neurocognitive Model
… simulating a new perspective to alter the psychological distance and emotional impact of a stimulus. The effectiveness and versatility of distancing make it a promising skill for clinical applications. However, the specific neurocognitive mechanisms of this emotion regulation tactic are …
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Culture and Time Perception: Implications for Mental Representation and Decisions
… orientation is expected to be related to psychological distance, which in turn affects the mental representations individuals form. The findings supported a stronger future orientation among English-speakers which is also evident in their mental representations that vary as a function of …
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Construal level theory and mathematics education
… level theory posits that thinking about psychologically distant objects influences the extent to which we view possibly unrelated objects abstractly or concretely. Psychological distance and abstract thought are cognitively linked together and make up Far Mode thinking. Psychological …
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The dynamics of upward communication in organisations.
… of publicness, and the perceived physical and psychological distance of the superior from the subordinate. Finally, the components of opinion conformity (a factor common to ingratiation theory and impression management), employee silence (Morrison and Milliken, 2000, Milliken, 2003), and …
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It's All in a Meme: A Content Analysis of Memes Posted to 2012 Presidential Election Facebook Pages
… theory states that a physical or psychological violation is benign if 1) an alternative norm suggests the violation is acceptable, 2) the users have a weak or loose connection to the violated norm, and 3) there is a physical and psychological distance between the users and the …
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