Invasion Of Personal Space: Moustache Experiment

Invasion of Personal Space: Moustache Experiment Every single student walking in the hallway experience wiggling out of a crowd in front of the library door, sliding by the wall to avoid a group of wild boys, or tiptoeing over a pool of mysterious water. All these actions are done to protect the student’s own personal space (Graziano & Cooke, 2006). A quick duck to avoid a flying basketball is also an example of personal space protection (Graziano & Cooke, 2006). Everyone has his or her own understanding of personal space and attempts to protect it from intrusion by others
(Kaya & Erkip, 1999). Both conscious and automatic reactions to possible dangers of intrusion are results of our “construction of a margin of safety around the body and …show more content…
The stability of the growing environment and the person’s relationship with the family greatly influences the realm of personal space; the more secure the environment, the more open to invasions of personal space, and the same negatively (Bar-Haim, Aviezer, Berson, & Sagi,
2002). In this experiment, the different realm of personal space were tested and the subject’s attempts to protect his region were observed. Gender was not a problem as all test subjects were males with moustache. I hypothesised that the test subjects would dislike the invasion of personal space and move away from such intrusion by jerking their head away. The procedures of this experiment is simple. First, the experimenter approaches the subject and starts a conversation. Then, the experimenter slowly attempts to touch the subject’s moustache while asking if he conditions his moustache. Meanwhile, another experimenter in the room carefully observes and records the reactions of the subject, the surrounding people, and the reflection of the experimenter who attempted to touch the moustache. The four test subjects consisted of two students and two teachers: Aditya,