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Movement direction or change in distance? Self- and object-related approach-avoidance motions

Based on the conceptualization of approach as a decrease in distance and avoidance as an increase in distance, we predicted that stimuli with positive valence facilitate behavior for either approaching the stimulus (object as reference point) or for bringing the stimulus closer (self as reference point) and that stimuli with negative valence facilitate behavior for withdrawing from the stimulus or for pushing the stimulus away. In Study 1, we found that motions to and from a computer screen where positive and negative words were presented lead to compatibility effects indicative of an object-related frame of reference. In Study 2, we replicated this finding using social stimuli with different evaluative associations (young vs. old persons). Finally, we present evidence that self vs. object reference points can be induced through instruction and thus lead to opposite compatibility effects even when participants make the same objective motion (Study 3).

Movement direction or change in distance? Self- and object-related approach-avoidance motions

Urheber*in: Seibt, Beate; Neumann, Roland; Nussinson, Ravit; Strack, Fritz

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Umfang
Seite(n): 713-720
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44(3)

Thema
Psychologie
Sozialpsychologie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Seibt, Beate
Neumann, Roland
Nussinson, Ravit
Strack, Fritz
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
(wann)
2008

DOI
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-243356
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Seibt, Beate
  • Neumann, Roland
  • Nussinson, Ravit
  • Strack, Fritz

Entstanden

  • 2008

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