Experts agree that the environmental situation in relation to climate change requires populations mobilize. In this respect, research on psychological distance shows fact of perceiving an event as concrete leads individuals adapt issue. The first aim study is identify different types coping regards change. second objective relations between relative and strategies via a quasi-experimental proto...

This study aimed to identify the psychological and social effects of distance education from viewpoints students’ guardians in Jordan. The sample comprised 1206 guardians, whom 71% have completed their undergraduate studies or a higher level. Furthermore, 62% participants aged more than 35 years. Results also indicated that 34% children studying primary education, 21.9% secondary 13.4% all leve...

The basic definition of distance learning (DL) considers that the teacher and the students are separate in the spatial dimension and that this distance is filled by using technological resources. Recent technological developments, allowing an increasing level of interaction between users, have implicated a deep change in the educational system. Aim of these studies was to analyze the implementa...

Psychological distance is pervasive in consumers’ minds and affects their hedonic consumption patterns. However, the literature regarding effects of psychological on inconsistent. Three experiments demonstrate that need to justify an important moderator. Experiments 1 2 show when not salient, negatively impacts consumption. effect disappears statistically. Experiment 3 shows explained by two co...

Current conceptualizations of psychological distance (e.g., construal-level theory) refer to the degree of overlap between the self and some other person, place, or point in time. We propose a complementary view in which perceptual and motor representations of physical distance influence people's thoughts and feelings without reference to the self, extending research and theory on the effects o...

Psychological distance has been shown to influence how people construe an event such that greater distance produces high-level construal (characterized by global or holistic processing) and lesser distance produces low-level construal (characterized by detailed or feature-based processing). The present research tested the hypothesis that construal level has carryover effects on how information ...

Building upon existing measures, four new brief acculturation scales are presented, measuring sociocultural adaptation, psychological adaptation, perceived cultural distance, and acculturation orientation. Following good scale reliability in initial samples, the English scales were translated into nine different languages (Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, a...

When do people focus more on the causes versus the consequences of events, and how does differential focus affect downstream judgments and choices? Building on construal level theory (Trope & Liberman, 2010), we propose a bidirectional relationship between psychological distance and causal focus, such that distance (vs. proximity) leads to a greater focus on causes (vs. consequences), and likew...