解释水平在社会距离影响具身模拟中的中介效应检验

The Mediating Effect of Construal Level between Social Distance and Mental Simulation

具身认知理论及相关的脑研究显示,个体在推断他人心理时具身模拟的强度可能会受到社会距离的影响。基于解释水平理论和具身认知理论,通过两项实验室实验探讨社会距离的外部线索—人格相似性和内外群关系对具身模拟强度的影响。结果显示:社会距离越近,个体的解释水平越低,具身模拟强度越高;解释水平可以部分中介人格相似性对具身模拟的影响,中介效应占总效应量的38.4%;解释水平可以完全中介内外群线索对具身模拟的影响。最后,结合实验结果讨论了个体推断他人心理的过程和机制。

According to embodied cognition theory and related brain studies,the intensity of mental simulation can be regulated by social distance.On the basis of this notion and on construal level theory,it is predicted that socially distal objects would be represented at more Abstract（higher） level of construal,and be mentally simulated more slightly.Two experiments confirm this prediction.The results show that intensity of mental simulation increases when the ＂object＂,which are simulated,are similar to the participants in personality（study 1）,and be in-group members rather than out-group members（study 2）.Besides,both experiments also show such effect is statistically mediated by individuals＇ construal level.Implications for future research of mind reading is discussed.