TY - JOUR
AU - Hayduk, Leslie A.
AB - Documented the intrusion–discomfort function in order to specify the permeability of personal space. 20 male and 20 female undergraduates halted an approaching experimenter when they began to feel various degrees of discomfort. Results confirm that greater spatial intrusions produce stronger feelings of discomfort. Furthermore, the relation between intrusion and discomfort is linear, indicating that each increment of intrusion produced a comparable increment in discomfort. Ss with larger personal spaces tended to react more strongly to spatial intrusions than did those with smaller personal spaces. Prolonging the intrusion from a few seconds to 1 min produced no differences in perceived discomfort. The implications of these findings for E. S. Knowles's (1977, 1979) crowding index are discussed. (17 ref)
TI - The permeability of personal space
JF - Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue Canadienne des Sciences du Comportement
DO - 10.1037/h0081182
DA - 1981-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/the-permeability-of-personal-space-AIvvvZ1wM0
SP - 274
EP - 287
VL - 13
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -