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Personal Space as a Function of the Stigma Effect
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Worthington, Mary Emmons – Environment and Behavior, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior, Body Image, Environment, Personal Space
Coping Strategies for Living in Student Residential Facilities in Nigeria
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Amole, Dolapo – Environment and Behavior, 2005
This article examines coping strategies used by students in high-density living. It uses the questionnaire survey method in 20 university halls-of-residence in southwestern Nigeria. The study focused on students' cognitive responses to the bedroom, the coping strategies that they used, gender differences in coping styles, and the influence of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Space, Gender Differences, Coping
The Size of Informal Groups in Public
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Bakeman, Roger; Beck, Stephen – Environment and Behavior, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Classification, Group Behavior, Group Membership
Personal Space: Direct Measurement Techniques with Hard-of-Hearing Children
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Mallenby, Terry W. – Environment and Behavior, 1974
Direct measurement techniques of interpersonal distances for three groups of sixth graders showed that hard-of-hearing students intergrated into a normal public school for a year displayed similar personal space to that of a "normal" child, while hard-of-hearing children having limited interactions with "normal" children displayed greater personal…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behavioral Sciences, Environmental Education, Handicapped Children
Human Ethology: Personal Space Reiterated
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Barash, David P. – Environment and Behavior, 1973
A study of human personal space and flight distance in terms of the responses of college students to intrusions upon their presumed personal space. Investigates the elicitation of aggressive or defensive behavior. (LK)
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Distance