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Interpersonal distance preferences

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 1979
The utility of various curvilinear “comfort” models of interpersonal distance was examined in a study employing subjects' responses to a broad range of videotaped, seated distances. Results obtained provided considerable support for these models. Intermediate distances were rated as more comfortable, preferable, and appropriate than more extreme close ...
Donna E. Thompson, John R. Aiello, Yakov M. Epstein   +2 more
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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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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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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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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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Structure and process in interpersonal ?distancing?

Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior, 1977
The present paper focuses on awho-why-where-when-how-what-whom structural model of interpersonal “distancing.” The term “distancing” denotes either approach or avoidance movement along an “intimacy-immediacy” dimension. This dimension itself is defined as an integration across proxemic, kinesic, paralinguistic, and linguistic interpersonal modalities ...
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Interpersonal distance as a function of situationally induced anxiety

British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of situationally induced anxiety on interpersonal distance in a two‐person conversation. In the anxiety‐arousing situation subjects were asked to discuss an interesting incident while their social competence was assessed from behind a one‐way screen. The briefing and debriefing periods were used
A T, Brady, M B, Walker
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EEG correlates of eye contact and interpersonal distance

Biological Psychology, 1975
The EEG of 18 male subjects was monitored while the subject gazed at the eyes of a male experimenter located 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32 ft from the subject. The experimenter either gazed directly at the subject or averted his eyes. EEG arousal was highest when the experimenter was at 2 ft and gazing into the subject's eyes.
A, Gale, G, Spratt, A J, Chapman, A, Smallbone   +3 more
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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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