Psychological Distance terhadap Wise Reasoning pada Mahasiswa

Abstract

Wisdom in an individual indicates a quality appearing naturally from integrated relationship of his existing traits. One of theories used in valuating wisdom is wise reasoning. It has six aspects that are analysis based on participants' responses to social dilemma. These aspects are perspective, change, flexibility, uncertainty or knowledge limit, compromise and conflict resolution. Wise reasoning can be affected by psychological distance (immersed and distance). The formulations of subject of this research are as follows; (1) Are there different wise reasoning in an individual doing self-immersion and one using self-distance? (2) Are there differences in wise reasoning between an individual having experienced a certain case and one having not experienced the same case? and (3) Are there differences in wise reasoning in an individual with a certain case and without the same case by using self-immersed and self-distance? The subjects of this research were 60 students from the State University of Makassar. The design used in this research was true experimental and randomized posttest only control group design. The results proved that psychological distance (immersed and distance) do not significantly contribute to wise reasoning.