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    Personal Space Proxemics

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    Silence is really being silent or quite but you can say influential important communications. Personal space proxemics and proxemics talks about space and how everyone uses it. Chronemics talks about to how we distinguish and use time to describe or explain characters, personalities, qualities, and interaction. The definition of an artifacts is personal items we utilize to state or reveal our individualities, custom, culture, and heritage. Haptics is how something feels or the sense of touch. Kinesics

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    people need more personal space than a regular person? Personal space is a distance boundary you feel comfortable being next to a person face to face. According to the popular article by Douglas Main, an average person has a boundary of 20 to 40 centimeters and an anxious person have a boundary of 30 to 50 centimeter, according to the original article by Chiara F. Sambo and Gian D. Iannetti. Two tests were conducted to verify if anxiety really causes a person to need a larger personal space. On the first

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    Does How we Perceive Personal Space Determine the Likelihood to Commit Violent Crimes? Personal Space, the imagery region immediately surrounding our body, acts as our safety zone. It is suggested this space is enlarged in violent offenders, and these offenders have an enhanced sensitivity in the reduction of interpersonal distance. There is an ongoing debate about whether our behavior is influenced more by nature or nurture. According to the nature side of the debate you are born the way you are

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    The use of personal space and understanding of proxemics is something that humans do not arrive in the world with at birth and, depending on the culture a child is born into, observance/adherence of these factors can vary greatly. In the grand scheme of life, behavior in people is learned and with humans, that often begins with the bond between a child and their caregiver(s). At this point, a sense of personal space and an understanding of proxemics are non-existent in infants. In an ideal setting

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    We as Americans have the grand idea that bigger is better. When it comes to personal space we all tend to keep a safe, calculated distance from whom ever we are speaking with. When people break into our personal space we tend to become aggravated or insulted. In America if a women intrudes a man’s personal space it is taken as a sign of sexual interest. Why? Our society as a whole has deemed this as something that is just not acceptable. In other cultures it is perfectly acceptable to be in

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    project, my experiment was invading someone else 's personal space. The process began by sitting close to a person that was by themselves; then, I started to get close when they looked to another direction or their phones. What normally a person would do when they tired or they want to sit, they mostly sit apart from a stranger or they sit with a distance between them. What I did in my project is that I sat close to a stranger when there is space where I could go and sit. The purpose for this project

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    The personal essay titled “The Space In-Between” by Santiago Quintana details the struggles he dealt with while trying to figure out his identity as a member of both the Mexican and American cultures. Even though Santiago was born and raised in Mexico, he was often questioned about his ethnicity because his physical appearance did not align with that of a “true Mexican.” Instead of having brown skin, black hair, and brown eyes, he has white skin, light brown hair, and blue eyes. Since Santiago looked

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    class-notes). This theory is applied to when an individual’s personal space and threat threshold is violated. Burgoon defines personal space as, “ the invisible, variable volume of space surrounding an individual that defines that individual’s preferred distance from others” (Griffin 2012). The size and shape of our personal space can be made by how people define their own cultural norms and with what people actually prefer. “ Our space always reflects a compromise between the conflicting approach-avoidance

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    and establish myself with a solid foundation in this field after graduation. I plan on entering an engineering firm while working towards my Doctorate. I will vigorously pursue my PhD. and goal of achieving and becoming a prominent member of the space engineering community. In my life, I have had many goals achieved. I have successfully and aptly defended our country in times of war. My military service has given me many tools in life. My two most valuable skills: adaptability and discipline

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    clients(Sue & Sue,2013). Proxemics, refers to the use of personal and interpersonal space (Sue & Sue, 2013, p.214). The amount of space a person has between them and another communicates certain messages. This is another area that counselors want to be cautious about making assumptions. There are no universal rules when it comes to proxemics. For example, in the United States, people get very uncomfortable when individuals are to close to their personal space. The exception to this rule, is when the persons

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