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Interpersonal Distance in Immersive Virtual Environments

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2003
Digital immersive virtual environment technology (IVET) enables behavioral scientists to conduct ecologically realistic experiments with near-perfect experimental control. The authors employed IVET to study the interpersonal distance maintained between participants and virtual humans.
Jeremy N, Bailenson, Jim, Blascovich, Andrew C, Beall, Jack M, Loomis   +3 more
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Privacy Preference and Interpersonal Distancing

Psychological Reports, 1983
Based on Altman's (1975) proposal that adjusting the distance between oneself and ochers is mediated in part by variation in desire for privacy, it was predicted rhar low need for privacy would lead to closer interpersonal distancing with a stranger than would high need for privacy.
Linda Mannik Kline, Paul A. Bell
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Shyness as a Determinant of Interpersonal Distance

Psychological Reports, 1979
A measure of interpersonal distance from either a same-sex or opposite-sex individual was recorded for 31 male and 42 female subjects who were classified as either very or not shy individuals. As predicted, very shy individuals maintained greater interpersonal distance from others, particularly those of the opposite sex, than not shy individuals.
B J, Carducci, A W, Webber
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An Unobtrusive Apparatus for Measuring Interpersonal Distances

The Journal of General Psychology, 1982
A relatively unobtrusive apparatus, the Interpersonal Distance Mat (IDM), is described as a means of acquiring immediate and accurate measures of interpersonal distances. Two brief experiments tested the sensitivity of the apparatus to gender differences in preferred interpersonal distance.
William A, Barnard, William A, Barnard
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Social Facilitation Effects via Interpersonal Distance

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1981
Summary A review of the proxemic literature suggests that violations of interpersonal distancing norms may increase arousal. The present study attempted to integrate this finding into a social facilitation framework. It was proposed that if distancing violations are associated with greater arousal, then close interpersonal distances may increase the ...
Elaine S. Elliot, Jerry L. Cohen
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Interpersonal Distances in Group Walking

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2009
The spatial organization of 1,020 groups comprised of adolescents and young adults, observed in an ecological setting while walking, was analyzed. Observations were made in an urban environment where walking speed could be considered. The results showed that male dyads and triads tended to walk abreast less often than female dyads.
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Distant Interpersonal Spacing and Psychological Distance

Psychological Reports, 1980
A recent line of research in the personal space area addresses the subject's experiential state of social spacing. One such study has reported that under close spacing, subjects experience the distance as significantly closer than the actual distance. This paper investigated the phenomenology of distant spacing.
J. Guthrie Ford, Sara Hoebeke
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Crowding Effects of Density and Interpersonal Distance

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1992
In this study, Turkish teenagers were the subjects in an investigation of the effects of spatial and social variables on perceived crowding. In Study 1, male and female subjects were presented with diagrams that simulated social situations in which (a) distance between the subject and other persons, (b) number, or density, of subjects, (c) sex, and (d)
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Interpersonal Distance: Sibling Structure and Parental Affection Antecedents

The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1973
Summary The hypothesized positive correlation between maternal physical affection and closeness to other persons was confirmed for elementary school and college males. The more maternal affection the students received, the closer they permitted stimulus persons to approach. The measure of approach was a paper and pencil measure.
J W, Hollender, M P, Duke, S, Nowicki
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Effect of Room Size on Critical Interpersonal Distance

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1971
Following the lines of Little (1965), who investigated the effect of various simulated and/or imagined spaces on critical interpersonal distance, the present study determined the distance at which Ss would move away from an approaching experimenter in a large, a small, a long, and a wide space. The dimensions of the spaces were, respectively, 12 ft.
W F, Daves, P W, Swaffer
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