先前研究表明，权力与心理距离间存在联系。权力在本研究中被定义为，在特定的人际关系互动中产生，并在关系内通过对于资源的控制影响他人的能力。在第二代认知科学发展的背景下，解释水平理论提出心理距离（空间距离、社会距离、时间距离和事件发生概率）与解释水平相互联系。通过对权力研究和理论以及解释水平理论的讨论，本研究假设权力与心理距离间存在着双向作用关系，这一关系由解释水平中介。 本研究包含5个实验。实验1与实验2使用图片-词语Stroop任务，证明了权力与空间距离存在着内隐联系。实验3使用IAT任务，证明权力与时间距离间存在着内隐联系。实验4使用IAT任务，发现权力与事件发生概率存在了负向的内隐联系，即事件发生概率低与低权力相联系，事件发生概率高与高权力相联系，与假设相反。实验5唤起被试不同的时间距离，发现被试的权力感相应变化，这一过程由解释水平中介。最后的讨论部分对事件发生概率结果相反的原因和时间距离中过去与未来的差异进行了讨论。

Previous studies have found that power is associated with psychological distance. Power is regarded as a potential to influence others based on the control over resources, but constrained as a result of interactions within certain relationships. From a background of second generation cognitive science, Construal Level Theory (CLT) proposed that construal level is associated with psychological distance (i.e. spatial distance, social distance, temporal distance and hypotheticality). Considering all the findings and theories of power and CLT, I proposed that power is bidirectionally associated with psychological distance and the process is mediated by construal level. I conducted 5 studies to test the hypothesis. Study 1-2 using picture-word Stroop tasks demonstrated that power is associated with spatial distance. Study 3 using IAT found power is associated with temporal distance. Study 4 using IAT found power is negatively associated with hypotheticality. Study 5, priming temporal distance, found an increase of sense of power in future distance compared to now and past distance, which is mediated by construal level. The thesis proved the assumptions in general. However, I discussed the results of hypotheticality and difference in past and future temporal distance in the last part.