Can a Text Message Influence Our Perceptions of the Physical World?: Text Messaging as a Prime for Social Support
| dc.contributor.author | Falisi, Angela | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-26T20:27:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-26T20:27:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-06-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Previous research has found that a psychosocial resource, social support, affects a person’s perception of physical burdens, particularly the steepness of geographical slants. In fact, there is a decrease in the perceived steepness of a geographical slant when a person is in the physical co-presence of another person or after an extended period of visualization of a supportive other. The present study replicated and extended previous findings to test whether the brief activation of a supportive other by sending a text message to them affects subsequent judgments of a geographical slant. Participants who sent a text message to a friend judged a hill to be less steep than did those who were in the physical co-presence of a friend. Even after controlling for relationship duration and strength, a media effect remained. This suggests that a text message serves as a purer prime to activate the idea of a supportive other, which includes the qualities that are most relevant to the task at hand. In comparison, the prime of a physically co-present friend may elicit a broader array of qualities that might or might not be useful to the task at hand, thus diluting the effectiveness of the prime overall. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/29098 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.title | Can a Text Message Influence Our Perceptions of the Physical World?: Text Messaging as a Prime for Social Support | en_US |
| dc.type | dissertation or thesis | en_US |
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