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Download full textHarris, Lauren Jay; Strommen, Ellen A. – 1973
A study was conducted of children's expression of social as well as spatial relations in their placement of dolls. The study was designed to determine how both face contact and physical distance varied according to the social relationship ascribed to the dolls. It was hoped to find out, through this, whether' children's working definitions of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Distance, Elementary School Students, Eye Fixations
Willis, Frank N.; And Others – Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior, 1979
Personal space in school cafeteria queues was observed for children in kindergarten through sixth grade in public schools. It was found that children segregate themselves both racially and sexually in the queues. In schools that were racially mixed, children stood closer to same-sex children than to other-sex children. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Childhood Attitudes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
