Problems in Cognitive Distance

1 December 1979

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Behavior

Vol. 11 (4) , 559-576
https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916579114007

Abstract

Three experiments are conducted on cognitive distance in order to investigate the problems of intransitivity, noncommutativity, and the consistency of estimates across different methodologies. The results suggest that it will be extremely difficult to identify any simple relationship between physical distance and cognitive distance and that people do not possess internalized spatial representations of the physical world that are based on Euclidian geometry.

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