Response category width as a psychophysical manifestation of construal level and distance

• Verfasst von: Krüger, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Fiedler, Klaus [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Koch, Alex Stefan [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Alves, Hans [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Response category width as a psychophysical manifestation of construal level and distance
• Titelzusatz: $hTobias Krüger, Klaus Fiedler, Alex Stefan Koch, and Hans Alves
• Jahr: 2014
• Jahr des Originals: 2013
• Umfang: 12 S.
• Fussnoten: First published December 18, 2013 ; Gesehen am 22.09.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Personality and social psychology bulletin
• Ort Quelle: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publ., 1974
• Jahr Quelle: 2014
• Band/Heft Quelle: 40(2014), 4, Seite 501-512
• ISSN Quelle: 1552-7433
• DOI: doi:10.1177/0146167213517009
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1733555935

Abstract

The present research suggests that people adjust their mental response scales to an object’s distance and construal level. People make use of wider response categories when they judge distant and abstract as compared with close and concrete stimuli. Across five experiments, participants worked on visual and verbal estimation problems (e.g., length or quantity judgments). Answers were provided in interval format, and differences between minimal and maximal estimates served as a measure of response category width.