The Psychological Distance Of Different Motivational Emotions

Psychological distance means transcending the subjective perception of this moment,here,and now.The perception of psychological distance is also a process of predicting and evaluating abstract objects and things.Therefore,different perceptions of psychological distance affect people’s cognition or decision-making.In the previous research on psychological distance,most of the researches on the relationship between psychological distance and cognition.Many studies have also explored the influence of emotional intensity and valence on the perception of psychological distance.However,these studies mostly only consider the two dimensions of emotional distance,and rarely examine the emotional motivation dimension that affects the perception of psychological distance.This article aims to study the psychological distance perception of different emotional motivation dimensions from the two directions of motivation direction and motivation intensity(the two directions of the motivation dimension model),using the implicit association test paradigm.Research one screens distance words(space,society,time,possibility)that have the meaning of psychological distance as attribute words,combines emotion words with different motivation directions as target words,and conducts the IAT test to determine the spatial distance and social distance of emotions in different motivation directions,Time distance and possibility distance for research.The second study further studies the spatial distance,social distance,time distance and possibility distance of positive emotions with different motivation strengths,and uses several dimensions(space,society,time,possibility)words that contain the meaning of psychological distance as attribute words,Positive emotion words with different intensities of motivation are used as target words for IAT test.The results show:Research one uses distance words containing psychological distance meaning(space,society,time,possibility)and emotional words with different motivational dimensions as attribute words and target words respectively.The results found that compared with incompatible conditions(The combination of high-intensity avoidance motivational emotion words and the close-distance words meaning of the psychological distance dimension,and the combination of high-intensity approaching motivational emotion words and the long-distance words meaning of the psychological distance dimension).Combining with distant words with the meaning of psychological distance,high-intensity approaching motivational emotion words and close words with the meaning of psychological distance)react faster.Study 2 further studies the spatial distance,social distance,time distance and possibility distance of positive emotions with different motivation strengths on the basis of study 1,and adopts distance words with meanings of psychological distance and positive emotion words with different intensities of approaching motivation.As an implicit association test between attribute words and target words,it was found that compared with incompatible conditions(high-intensity approaching motivation positive emotion words combined with long-distance words meaning the psychological distance dimension,low-intensity approaching motivation positive emotions The combination of words and the near-distance word meaning of the psychological distance dimension),the subjects are compatible with the conditions(the combination of high-intensity approaching motivation positive emotion words and the near-distance words meaning of psychological distance dimension meaning;low-intensity approaching motivation positive emotion words The long-distance words associated with the meaning of the psychological distance dimension react faster.This research has drawn the following conclusions:(1)People perceive the space,time,society,and possibility psychological distance for high-intensity approaching motivation emotional words are close,and the space,time,society and possibility psychological distance that people perceive for high-intensity avoidance motivation emotional words are far.(2)People perceive the space,time,society and possibility psychological distance of positive emotion words with high intensity approaching motivation are close,and the space,time,society and possibility perceived by positive emotion words with low intensity approaching motivation Long psychological distance.