Study On The Influence Of Death Awareness On Time Distance And Space Distance

Death is the inevitable for everyone,and the awareness of death is the individual's understanding of the inevitability of his own death.In the face of death,people will sigh "cherish life,cherish time." Studies on older people and sudden death groups have shown that death awareness has an impact on people's time perception and behavioral decisions.Time and space are the basic forms of the existence of moving matter.They are not only the embodiment of the persistence,order and extensiveness of the movement,but also an important factor influencing cognitive and behavioral decision-making.Subjective time distance and spatial distance are important components of psychological distance,studies have shown that psychologically estimating time and space distances can more accurately predict people's behavior and decision-making than objective time-space distances..Although many researchers have conducted a lot of discussion on time and space from the perspective of psychological distance,there are few studies about the relationship between death awareness and time distance and spatial distance.In this study,mortality salience was used to prime the death awareness of the subjects,and three experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of death awareness on temporal distance and spatial distance.Experiment 1 explores the effect of death awareness on time distance,and compares the difference between the experimental group(start of death awareness)and the control group(non-death awareness initiation)on the time distance of future events and the delay rate of inter-temporal decision delay.Experiment 2 and Experiment 3 respectively explored the effects of death awareness on spatial distance,and compared the differences between the experimental group(start of death awareness)and the control group(non-death awareness initiation)in direct distance assessment and indirect distance assessment.The results of the study showed that: compared with the control group,(1)in thesubjective time perception task,the death awareness initiation group was aware that the time lapse was faster;(2)in the assessment of the future event time distance,the death awareness initiation group was try to have different effects on different future event time distance assessments,underestimate the time distance between future events of“self-rescue training”and“computer training”,and overestimate the time distance between future events of“take a holiday”;the perception of the speed of time has played a part in mediating the influence of death awareness on the estimation of the temporal distance of future events;(3)In the inter-period decision-making tasks related to money,the death awareness initiation group showed a lower rate of delay discount;the perception of the speed of time has played a part in mediating;the perception of the speed of time has played a part in mediating the influence of death consciousness on inter-temporal decision-making;(4)whether it was direct spatial distance assessment or indirect spatial distance estimation,the death awareness prime would allow the subjects to be tested.Overestimating the spatial distance,the straight-line distances assessed are relatively far,feeling the landmarks are relatively far from themselves.This study shows that death awareness affects individuals' perception of temporal distance and spatial distance.In terms of time distance,the initiation of death awareness accelerates the individual's time lapse and affects people's time assessment and inter-temporal decision-making for future events,reflecting rational time planning and higher future orientation that are beneficial to life development.In terms of spatial distance,the awareness of death initiates the spatial distance of individual perception,which reflects a sense of distance from the “things outside the body”.At the same time,this may also be a spatial manifestation of the acceleration of time lapse,reflecting the correlation of time and space.However,it still needs to be further explored.In summary,we believe that the arousal of death awareness has positive significance for the development of individual life.