DEA 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proxemics

• School: Cornell University
• Department: Design & Environmental Analysis
• Course: DEA 1500
• Professor: Gray Evans

Document Summary

Based on biology and genetics; there are two kinds of species contact species: no personal space. There are some species that maintain distance amongst themselves. Communicates to the individuals involve and others outside of the relationship. This is a way was establish and maintain a relationship. The distance between two bodies in a handshake is social. Research on factors influencing personal space social relationship gender. In general, male adults have a larger bubble than women. Two women will be more comfortable together than two men, in heterosexual. cultural contact and non-contact cultures. Latin american countries are more contact, and some asian countries. So what happens when you bring a culture that is more contact to a country that is less contact. If you look at little children, they are contact species. As humans grow up, they have a bigger and bigger bubble. When puberty hits, you see the male and female changes.