While the participants reported less distant attitudes toward migrants who were white-collar workers,
social distance from migrants who were laborers was very large, within the scores 6-7 on the Bogardus scale.
The SD-R ([alpha] = .91), a modified version of the SDS-SU, measured preferred
social distance from individuals in recovery from SUDs.
Thus, informed by psychological distance theory and CLT, we conducted three studies to examine if event abstractness and
social distance have a joint influence on self-other risk perception differences.
(2011), the reward was divided with one other person of varying
social distance from the participant (i.e., Jones & Rachlin, 2006).
H1: The level of support for hypotheses deduced from the pure sociology framework varies inversely with the
social distance between those involved in analyzing the evidence and pure sociology's inner core.
Perceived, internalised stigma,
social distance and impairment level for people living with leprosy in the leprosy settlement and those living in the surrounding community.
It was expected that both adolescents and adults who participated in the programme would show a similar increment in mental health knowledge and reduction in stigmatising attitudes and
social distance.
Liberman (2002) defined that psychological distance contained four dimensions: temporal distance, spatial distance,
social distance and hypotheticality (Baranan et al., 2006; Baranan et al., 2007; Trope et al., 2007; Trope and Liberman, 2010), which together constituted the basic framework of psychological distance.
Following these observations, we concluded that discourse particle functions can be more clearly understood when viewed through the frame of two mutually exclusive categories of socio-pragmatic functions, which are 'to increase
social distance' and 'to reduce
social distance' (see Tables 2 and 3 in the Appendix).
Eveland, Nathanson, Detenber, and Mcleod (1999) explained that
social distance is an important concept that may partially account for variations in TPP gaps.
Another relevant model is based on Bogardus's (1933)
social distance theory, which documented the varying degrees of
social distance between the dominant U.S.