Remembering the Forest or the Trees: Effects of Psychological Distance on Memory Specificity

Faculty Sponsor: Kyungmi Kim Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Psychological distance (i.e., the distance of a stimulus from a person’s direct experience) is suggested to alter the way people construe a stimulus, with a more detail-oriented, concrete construal for a psychologically proximal stimulus vs. a more global, abstract construal for a psychologically distal stimulus. … Read more