According to the theory "psychic unity of mankind", all people follow the same psychological path in intercultural communication: cultural identity recognition, cultural empathy and cultural reconstruction. 根据跨文化心理学人类心理统一性的理论,交际主体在跨文化交际过程中有意识或无意识地遵循着同样的心路历程:文化身份认知、文化移情和文化整合。
So-called "the hedgehog principle" is "the psychic distance effect" in the human communication. 所谓的刺猬法则就是人际交往中的心理距离效应。