Determinants of spontaneous inferences in person perception from the perspective of construal level theory

Taniguchi, Yuri; Ikegami, Tomoko

doi:10.2130/jjesp.1609

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“…In this study, participants were more likely to form STIs for the victim when they perceived the distance from the accident as far rather than near. This is consistent with views regarding CLT (Gilead et al, 2018; Liberman & Trope, 2008, 2014; Rim et al, 2009; Taniguchi & Ikegami, 2018a, 2018c; Trope & Liberman, 2003, 2010). Perceiving psychological distance from an accident automatically induces people to represent the accident by high-level construals, such as the actor’s trait.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…In this study, psychological distance did not affect SSIs. In contrast, Taniguchi and Ikegami (2018b) revealed that when perceivers were presented with a scenario of criminal behavior, psychological proximity facilitated SSIs, but psychological distance did not affect STIs. It is thus suggested that—although psychological distantness and proximity induce STIs and SSIs, respectively—SSIs will not be inhibited even if STIs are formed, and vice versa.…”

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confidence: 68%

“…Second, given that psychological distance affects both implicit and explicit inferences (Henderson et al, 2006; Rim et al, 2009; Taniguchi & Ikegami, 2018a, 2018b, 2018c) and that explicit inferences are made based on implicit inferences (Gawronski & Bodenhausen, 2011; Gilbert, 1989), we conducted a path analysis using a hypothetical model (Figure 1). This explored how psychological distance affects people’s judgments of victims of adverse events.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Recently, several studies have examined the effects of psychological distance from behaviors on spontaneous inferences. Rim et al (2009) and Taniguchi and Ikegami (2018a, 2018c) revealed that perceivers formed more STIs from psychologically distant relative to psychologically near behaviors. Taniguchi and Ikegami (2018b) also showed that perceivers formed more SSIs from psychologically near than psychologically distant behaviors.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Rim et al (2009) and Taniguchi and Ikegami (2018a, 2018c) revealed that perceivers formed more STIs from psychologically distant relative to psychologically near behaviors. Taniguchi and Ikegami (2018b) also showed that perceivers formed more SSIs from psychologically near than psychologically distant behaviors. In sum, psychological distance from a behavior affects causal attribution for both explicit and implicit inferences.…”

Section: Prosocial Behavior and Psychological Distancementioning

confidence: 98%

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Influence of Psychological Distance on People’s Willingness to Help Accident Victims: Discrepancies Between Implicit and Explicit Inferences

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2021

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Drawing on construal-level theory, this study explored how a sense of psychological distance from an accident influences people’s willingness to help victims. We conducted a scenario experiment with a sample of 81 Japanese undergraduates. Participants were presented with a short scenario describing an accident that happened on either a distant or a nearby mountain. The results show that the greater the distance perceived by participants from the accident, the more likely they were to infer negative traits about the victim at an implicit level. However, the more they inferred negative traits at an implicit level, the more likely they were to attribute the cause of the accident to external situational factors, at an explicit level. Finally, explicit external causal attribution aroused greater sympathy for the victim, resulting in an increased willingness to help. This discrepancy between implicit and explicit inferences was discussed in terms of cognitive elaboration, in which people engage in helping behaviors when they feel responsible for the fate of the victim.

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