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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"interpersonal distance"”.
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EXPECTANCIES AND INTERPERSONAL DISTANCE.
EXPECTANCIES AND INTERPERSONAL DISTANCE.
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The development of interpersonal distance in children and adolescents
The U-shaped relationship between age and interpersonal distance was surprising. The human infant’s need for physical contact to ensure healthy development has been well established. Developmental studies indicate that by kindergarten age, children are playing cooperatively with each other. It was …
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Environmental determinants of self-disclosure
The effects of interpersonal distance, room size and a Room Size x Interpersonal Distance interaction on verbal and nonverbal affiliative behaviors during an interview were examined. A 2 x 3 factorial design with 2 room sizes and 3 interpersonal distances was used. There were no room size nor Room …
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Communication Apprehension as a predictor of Proxemic Establishment, Self-Esteem, & Dogmatism
… containing low-low members established greater interpersonal distance than dyads containing high-low members who established greater interpersonal distance than dyads containing high-high members. Communication apprehension overrode the sex variable with relation to spatial usage. Subjects high …
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Persuasive robotics : how robots change our minds
… such as robot-gender, subject-gender, touch, interpersonal distance, and the perceived autonomy of the robot, have a huge impact on the interaction between human and robot, and must be taken into consideration when designing sociable robots. This thesis applies the term persuasive robotics to …
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Adult Attachment Orientation and Physical Distance: Do Threat Primes Alter Perceptions of Interpersonal Proximity?
… to examine whether adult romantic attachment and interpersonal threat bias people’s perceptions of physical distance within a social context. Across three separate studies, I assessed the interactive effects of attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, and threat on perceptions of distance. In the …
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Devising and evaluating wearable technology for social dynamics monitoring
… (e.g. body posture, orientation and interaction distance) have been often neglected, with a few exceptions, even if traditional sociology has highlighted their importance. In this dissertation we address these challenges by developing two wearable research platforms to monitor different …
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The effect of sighting, distance, and perceived mental status on the allocation of rewards and penalties
… that as public attitudes evolve to a more interpersonally-oriented view, behavioral acceptance would also increase. Shortcomings in previous research included the lack of a face-to-face interaction between normals and the mentally ill, and attention to such details of the interaction as …
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Personal Intelligence and Learning about Personality in Everyday Life
<p>As we encounter other people, we form impressions of and judgments about them. Based on these evaluations, we choose whether we want to interact any further, and if we do, what type of relationship we want to have. Although such choices can have far-reaching consequences, we typically base them …