Personal space

passive person, I knew that I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and do something I would not normally do; my roommate and I went to Target on a Saturday morning, before it got too crowded, and I decided to intrude on employees and other shopper’s personal space. I went up to the first employee, a young man in his late teens/20s, and asked him where the notebooks were, while standing maybe a half of a foot away from him, making complete eye contact. Immediately he started to back up and was a…

(Schmitz 2012, 203-205) Proxemics: The study of how people use their personal space is called proxemics. The anthropologist Edward T. Hall has defined four types of zones in which communication occurs, these are: • Intimate space area starts from the surface of the skin up to a distance of 45 cm. This zone is reserved for only the closest friends, family, and romantic/intimate partners. (Schmitz 2012, 214) • Personal space is a distance between 45 cm and 125 cm. This zone is reserved for…

The main idea of this post is how personal space varies from person to person. Everyone has a specific amount of space they choose to have around certain people. In this post, we get to realize the way people from other countries see our own culture. According to this post, people from Puerto Rico are a lot more comfortable around other people than we Americans are. “Puerto Rico paisanos keep a close distance when talking to each other.” Serafin Roldan-Santiago states this within the post,…

Hall (1966) describes personal space as the “small protective sphere or bubble that an organism maintains between itself and others” (Hall 1996: p112). In the book ‘The Silent Language’, Hall proposed that while animals use their urine and physical posturing to mark their territory, humans do something similar using our personal space. The proxemics theory suggests that the distance between individuals help to control the amount of sensory information exchanged and thus, helping to control the…

arms-length distance around me. If you are closer than that to me, I am going to feel very uncomfortable until you move. I believe it is only ever okay to share your personal space if you are good friends or dating that person. I have been asked to make a short list of my personal proximity rules. I had no trouble listing off five different personal proximity rules, but once I went back and reread them, I almost sounded crazy/snobby to myself. Number one on my list is if there are other seats…

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…

I was in school the seventh grade class just doing the normal things you know,like science , math, reading about fictional stories . So people said that Santa and aliens other things were real.So I told them they are not real. “You people just making fools of yourself,Nick said. We went to our wierd class that all the nerds will come with facts about things like science, after that I felt like I was a lonely planet like pluto. I felt lonely because there was a lot of kids that were kind…

reality-altering sensation that occurs when one is positioned in a place that doesn’t have a definitive purpose outside of it’s relationship to a following action. Airports, parking lots, and waiting rooms are a few examples of these places called “liminal spaces”. Because they lack familiar context, our brains deem them dangerous. Knowing otherwise, we’re left with a feeling of curious wariness and expectant unease. This rush of adrenaline and abruption of butterflies is what I experience when…

The air turned black all around me. Something was going on. I was at the old destroyed science lab. Something was emitting radioactive surges. Then I remembered, five years ago a crazed scientist named ben destroyed half of the lab and overtook the other half to create a radioactive toilet weapon. Unfortunately, it out of hand and one day a big radioactive surge occurred while he was working on it and it killed him. But now the toilet was getting out of hand and it was starting to slowly destroy…

Personal space is something that is taught early on in the African American community. Our parents tell us to be mindful of other people’s space and not to invade it. We are also made aware of our personal space or “bubble”. If someone welcomes you in their person space or body buffer zone then there is no problem. However, entering someone’s personal space without an invitation is often seen as a sign of disrespect. People tend to react negatively when their personal space is intruded on by…