Editing Social distance (section)

===Prejudice===
Social distance can emerge between groups that differ on a variety of dimensions, including culture, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic class.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hipp|first1=John R.|last2=Perrin|first2=Andrew J.|date=March 2009|title=The Simultaneous Effect of Social Distance and Physical Distance on the Formation of Neighborhood Ties|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2009.01267.x|journal=City & Community|volume=8|issue=1|pages=5–25|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6040.2009.01267.x|s2cid=54556334|issn=1535-6841}}</ref> Construal level theory suggests that greater social distance can contribute to a reliance on stereotypes when evaluating socially distant individuals/groups.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kim|first1=Kyeongheui|last2=Zhang|first2=Meng|last3=Li|first3=Xiuping|date=December 2008|title=Effects of Temporal and Social Distance on Consumer Evaluations: Table 1|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/592131|journal=Journal of Consumer Research|volume=35|issue=4|pages=706–713|doi=10.1086/592131|issn=0093-5301|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The relationship between social distance and prejudice is documented in studies of attitudes towards individuals who suffer from a mental illness.<ref name=":8">{{Cite journal|last1=Jorm|first1=Anthony F.|last2=Oh|first2=Elizabeth|date=January 2009|title=Desire for Social Distance from People with Mental Disorders|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048670802653349|journal=Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry|volume=43|issue=3|pages=183–200|doi=10.1080/00048670802653349|pmid=19221907|s2cid=9651718|issn=0004-8674|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Distance from the mentally ill and the desire to maintain it depends on the diagnosis, and varies across age groups and nationalities.<ref name=":8" /> The desire to maintain social distance is reduced with exposure to/familiarity with mental illness,<ref name=":8" /> and increased with perceptions that mentally ill individuals are dangerous.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Angermeyer|first1=M. C.|last2=Matschinger|first2=H.|date=2003-09-02|title=The stigma of mental illness: effects of labelling on public attitudes towards people with mental disorder|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00150.x|journal=Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica|volume=108|issue=4|pages=304–309|doi=10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00150.x|pmid=12956832|s2cid=18917348|issn=0001-690X}}</ref><ref name=":8" />