Bridging psychological distance: The impact of immersive media on distant and proximal environmental issues

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Highlights：

• Immersive media reduce temporal psychological distance from environmental issues.

• Immersive media are well suited for communicating abstract environmental issues.

• The enhanced risk perception created by immersive media is enduring.

• Immersive media do not enhance persuasive effectiveness concerning concrete issues.

摘要

•Immersive media reduce temporal psychological distance from environmental issues.•Immersive media are well suited for communicating abstract environmental issues.•The enhanced risk perception created by immersive media is enduring.•Immersive media do not enhance persuasive effectiveness concerning concrete issues.

论文关键词：Psychological distance,Construal level theory,Spatial presence,Immersive media,Risk severity,Environmental communication

论文评审过程：Received 28 July 2020, Revised 4 September 2020, Accepted 15 October 2020, Available online 22 October 2020, Version of Record 28 October 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106606