The anisotropy of personal space. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Violations of personal space are associated with discomfort. However, the exact function linking the magnitude of discomfort to interpersonal distance has not yet been specified. In this study, we explore whether interpersonal distance and discomfort are
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Personal space increases during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to real and virtual humans [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Personal space is the distance that people tend to maintain from others during daily life in a largely unconscious manner. For humans, personal space-related behaviors represent one form of non-verbal social communication, similar to facial expressions ...
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Differences in office-based personal space perception between British and Korean populations [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 We sought to understand how the perception of personal space is influenced by different levels of social density, spatial density, and type of window-view in South Korean and United Kingdom workplaces.
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Generalization of the modulatory effect of social interaction on personal space [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionPersonal space (PS) is a safe area around an individual’s body that affects spatial distance when socially interacting with others. Previous studies have shown that social interaction may modulate PS.
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Association of Chronic Low Back Pain With Personal Space Regulation [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 Background: While most previous studies regarding patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) mainly focused on pain, disability, psychological damage, and intervention measures, the effect of CLBP on personal space remains unclear.
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Psychological and physiological evidence for an initial ‘Rough Sketch’ calculation of personal space [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Personal space has been defined as “the area individuals maintain around themselves into which others cannot intrude without arousing discomfort”. However, the precise relationship between discomfort (or arousal) responses as a function of distance from ...
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How Does a Walker Pass Between Two People Standing in Different Configurations? Influence of Personal Space on Aperture Passing Methods [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Most studies on aperture passability focus on aperture passing involving non-human physical objects. In this study, we examined experimentally how participants pass between two box-shaped frames and between the same frames, each with a human confederate ...
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Reduced Visuospatial Attention in Personal Space is Not Limited to the Affected Limb in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome [PDF]
Journal of Pain ResearchMonika Halicka,1– 3 Olivia Rose Cousins,3 Antonia F Ten Brink,2– 4 Axel D Vittersø,2,3,5 Michael J Proulx,3 Janet H Bultitude2,3 1Institute of Neuroscience, Universite catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; 2Centre for Pain Research, University of ...
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Disgust Proneness and Personal Space in Children [PDF]
Evolutionary Psychology, 2019 Individuals vary in their personal space (PS) size as reflected by the preferred distance to another person during social interactions. A previous study with adults showed that pathogen-relevant disgust proneness (DP) predicted PS magnitude.
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Cynophobic fear adaptively extends peri-personal space [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014 Peri-personal space (PPS) is defined as the space immediately surrounding our bodies, which is critical in the adaptation of our social behavior. As a space of interaction with the external world, PPS is involved in the control of motor action as well as
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