What is the study of interpersonal space?
What is the study of interpersonal space?
Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication, and social interaction. Proxemics remains a hidden component of interpersonal communication that is uncovered through observation and strongly influenced by culture.
How does culture affect interpersonal space?
Cultures share some commonalities. Women preferred more personal space from strangers than men in almost all of the countries studied. People living in warmer places tended to keep less distance than those in colder climes. And the older you are, the farther away you stand.
What are the 4 zones of Proxemics?
Hall (1969) delineated four zones of interpersonal distance that characterize Western culture: intimate (up to 18 inches), personal (18–48 inches), social (48 inches to 12 feet), and public (greater than 12 feet).
How is personal space measured?
The most reliable measurement method of the personal space in real space is stop-distance method. This is the method to measure the inter-personal distance, which asks one participant in the experiment to approach to another until the point when they start to feel uncomfortable.
What is the role of personal space in communication?
2. Personal space is the region into which you allow people with whom you have good rapport. People value their personal space and they feel irritation, antagonism, or anxiety whenever someone they don’t know invades their space. When you allow someone to enter your personal space, you are socially promoting them.
What is conversational space?
The term conversational spaces discusses a broader perspective on social and interactive interfaces than what we today think of as e.g. commenting forums. This is done in order to think creatively about the possibilities of these spaces.
What is artifactual communication?
Definition of ‘artifactual’ Artifactual communication concerns the messages conveyed by objects that are made by human hands. Thus, aesthetics, colour, clothing, jewellery, and even hairstyle are considered artifactual.
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