PSY 217 Lecture 6: Personal Space, Territoriality, Crowding (Week 7)
11 Mar 2018
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Personal space - a portable, invisible boundary surrounding us into which others may. Anthropologist et hall proposed 4 zones of personal space. Hall proposes we use sensory cues to judge distances. Hall recognized that preferred distances might change depending on the context. Also might be different for different people. Contact cultures - closer interpersonal distances, more touching (mediterranean, arabic, Noncontact cultures - further, interpersonal distances, less touching (northern european, Sorokowska, et al. asked 9000 ppl in 42 countries to rate preferred distances. Results not so consistent with hall"s predictions about contact/noncontact cultures. Maybe because this study specified strangers, acquaintances. Peripersonal space - within an arm"s length. Extrapersonal space - beyond an arm"s length. Some evidence that amygdala (brain"s fear center) involved in peripersonal space violations. Kennedy et al. showed sms preferred distance from the experimenter was closer than controls. Brain scans of controls showed greater amygdala activation when experimenter in peripersonal space.
