To what extent do people anchor thoughts about social relationships in terms of space and time? Three studies used drawing and estimation tasks to further explore the conceptual structure of "social" distance. In the three studies, participants read short narratives, drew what they imagined happening during the narrative, then estimated both time and distance. In general, results suggest that the conceptual structure of social relationships is linked to thought about space in terms of path drawing and temporal estimation, but not absolute distance estimation. Results are discussed in terms of mental simulation and inter-character interaction. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Matthews, J. L., & Matlock, T. (2010). The spatial and temporal underpinnings of social distance. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6222 LNAI, pp. 19–31). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14749-4_5
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