Keeping One’s Distance: Mask Wearing is Implicitly Associated With Psychological Distance

IF 4.3 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Social Psychological and Personality Science Pub Date : 2021-04-26 DOI:10.1177/19485506211044061

R. Fatfouta, Y. Trope

引用次数: 3

Abstract

Mask wearing plays a vital role in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Despite its ubiquity in everyday social life, it is still unknown how masked faces are mentally represented. Drawing on construal-level theory, we test the hypothesis that masked faces and unmasked faces are implicitly associated with psychological distance and proximity in memory, respectively. Four preregistered, high-powered experiments (N = 354 adults) using the Implicit Association Test lend convergent support to this hypothesis across all four dimensions of psychological distance: social distance, spatial distance, temporal distance, and hypothetical distance. A mini meta-analysis validates the reliability of the findings (Hedge’s g = 0.46). The present work contributes to the growing literature on construal-level effects on implicit social cognition and enriches the current discussion on mask wearing in the pandemic and beyond.

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保持距离:戴口罩与心理距离有隐性联系

戴口罩在抗击新型冠状病毒(COVID-19)中发挥着至关重要的作用。尽管面具在日常社会生活中无处不在，但人们仍然不知道面具是如何被心理表征的。利用识解水平理论，我们测试了蒙面脸和未蒙面脸分别与记忆中的心理距离和接近性隐含相关的假设。使用内隐联想测试的四个预注册的高强度实验(N = 354名成年人)在心理距离的所有四个维度(社会距离、空间距离、时间距离和假设距离)上为这一假设提供了聚合支持。一项小型荟萃分析验证了研究结果的可靠性(Hedge’s g = 0.46)。本研究有助于对内隐社会认知的识解水平效应的研究，并丰富了当前关于大流行期间及以后口罩佩戴的讨论。

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Social Psychological and Personality Science PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

12.50

自引率

1.80%

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期刊介绍： Social Psychological and Personality Science (SPPS) is a distinctive journal in the fields of social and personality psychology that focuses on publishing brief empirical study reports, typically limited to 5000 words. The journal's mission is to disseminate research that significantly contributes to the advancement of social psychological and personality science. It welcomes submissions that introduce new theories, present empirical data, propose innovative methods, or offer a combination of these elements. SPPS also places a high value on replication studies, giving them serious consideration regardless of whether they confirm or challenge the original findings, with a particular emphasis on replications of studies initially published in SPPS. The journal is committed to a rapid review and publication process, ensuring that research can swiftly enter the scientific discourse and become an integral part of ongoing academic conversations.