Social Bonds, Personal Spaces (04-16-24)
Researchers recently evaluated personal spacing comfort with people we know; much of the previous research had evaluated distances we keep from strangers. Mukai, Isomura, and Onagawa (study published in Scientific Reports) “investigated the responses to the presence of friends and acquaintances at different relative positions in IPS [interpersonal space, at a distance of 30 cm]. . .