Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological Distance
People are innately capable of exploring and detecting orderliness and of attempting to make the world in which they live more orderly rather than more disorderly. Construal level theory asserts that the same stimuli can be represented abstractly or concretely and that psychological distance can aff...
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| author | Kaiyun Li Yingqi Lv Yingchao Dong Tianze Wang Jiayi Wu Zhenxing Zhang Xinrui Li Ruikang Han Fengxun Lin |
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| description | People are innately capable of exploring and detecting orderliness and of attempting to make the world in which they live more orderly rather than more disorderly. Construal level theory asserts that the same stimuli can be represented abstractly or concretely and that psychological distance can affect the construal level. No research, however, has examined whether perceived orderliness/disorderliness is mentally associated with construal level and psychological distance. In this study, by using the Implicit Association Test (IAT), we conducted 10 studies to examine this possibility. The results of studies 1A–1B showed that people tended to associate high-level construal concepts with orderliness concepts and low-level construal concepts with disorderliness concepts. By contrast, the results of studies 2A–5B revealed that people associated psychologically proximal concepts with orderliness concepts and psychologically distal concepts with disorderliness concepts. These studies demonstrated that orderliness/disorderliness is associated with both construal level and psychological distance, but in opposite directions, suggesting that construal level and psychological distance may have distinct natures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5133fad3f5be4ff1a7182b54d0fc87a22022-12-21T17:25:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-11-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.02521465818Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological DistanceKaiyun LiYingqi LvYingchao DongTianze WangJiayi WuZhenxing ZhangXinrui LiRuikang HanFengxun LinPeople are innately capable of exploring and detecting orderliness and of attempting to make the world in which they live more orderly rather than more disorderly. Construal level theory asserts that the same stimuli can be represented abstractly or concretely and that psychological distance can affect the construal level. No research, however, has examined whether perceived orderliness/disorderliness is mentally associated with construal level and psychological distance. In this study, by using the Implicit Association Test (IAT), we conducted 10 studies to examine this possibility. The results of studies 1A–1B showed that people tended to associate high-level construal concepts with orderliness concepts and low-level construal concepts with disorderliness concepts. By contrast, the results of studies 2A–5B revealed that people associated psychologically proximal concepts with orderliness concepts and psychologically distal concepts with disorderliness concepts. These studies demonstrated that orderliness/disorderliness is associated with both construal level and psychological distance, but in opposite directions, suggesting that construal level and psychological distance may have distinct natures.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02521/fullorderlinessdisorderlinessconstrual levelpsychological distanceIAT |
| spellingShingle | Kaiyun Li Yingqi Lv Yingchao Dong Tianze Wang Jiayi Wu Zhenxing Zhang Xinrui Li Ruikang Han Fengxun Lin Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological Distance Frontiers in Psychology orderliness disorderliness construal level psychological distance IAT |
| title | Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological Distance |
| title_full | Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological Distance |
| title_fullStr | Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological Distance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological Distance |
| title_short | Orderliness/Disorderliness Is Mentally Associated With Construal Level and Psychological Distance |
| title_sort | orderliness disorderliness is mentally associated with construal level and psychological distance |
| topic | orderliness disorderliness construal level psychological distance IAT |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02521/full |
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