Higher Height, Higher Ability: Judgment Confidence as a Function of Spatial Height Perception

CORC > 厦门大学 > 新闻传播－已发表论文

	Higher Height, Higher Ability: Judgment Confidence as a Function of Spatial Height Perception
	Sun, Yan ; Wang, Fei ; Li, Shu ; Wang F(王霏)
刊名	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022125
	2011-07-27
关键词	SPACE MIND
英文摘要	National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2011CB711000]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [70871110, 71001098]; Special Fund for Beijing Key Discipline Construction; IPCAS [Y0CX073S01]; Based on grounded cognition theories, the current study showed that judgments about ability were regulated by the subjects' perceptions of their spatial height. In Experiment 1, we found that after seeing the ground from a higher rather than lower floor, people had higher expectations about their performance on a knowledge test and assigned themselves higher rank positions in a peer comparison evaluation. In Experiment 2, we examined the boundary conditions of the spatial height effects and showed that it could still occur even if we employed photos rather than actual building floors to manipulate the perceptions of spatial heights. In addition, Experiment 2 excluded processing style as an explanation for these observations. In Experiment 3, we investigated a potential mechanism for the spatial height effect by manipulating the scale direction in the questionnaire. Consequently, consistent with our representational dependence account, the effect of spatial heights on ability judgments was eliminated when the mental representation of ability was disturbed by a reverse physical representation. These results suggest that people's judgments about their ability are correlated with their spatial perception.
语种	英语
出版者	PLOS ONE
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://dspace.xmu.edu.cn/handle/2288/92351]
专题	新闻传播－已发表论文
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sun, Yan,Wang, Fei,Li, Shu,et al. Higher Height, Higher Ability: Judgment Confidence as a Function of Spatial Height Perception[J]. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022125,2011.
APA	Sun, Yan,Wang, Fei,Li, Shu,&王霏.(2011).Higher Height, Higher Ability: Judgment Confidence as a Function of Spatial Height Perception.http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022125.
MLA	Sun, Yan,et al."Higher Height, Higher Ability: Judgment Confidence as a Function of Spatial Height Perception".http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0022125 (2011).