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Download full textRogers, Ruth Ann; Thomas, Georgelle – 1983
Research has found that the need for personal space is greater for normal persons who are interacting with stigmatized persons, such as overweight people, and that one who is identified as deviant may be more sensitive to environmental cues and react more strongly to affective stimuli. To investigate the reactions to approach/distance among…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, College Students, Females, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSever, Irene – Library and Information Science Research, 1987
A three-year study investigated the territorial behavior of children in a spatially unstructured library setting. The children's various solutions to the lack of spatial structure are described, and implications for libraries dealing with groups of children are discussed. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Foreign Countries, Furniture Arrangement, Group Activities
Wagner, Gulten – 1983
Arguing that the study of use of personal space is an important aspect of understanding the total communication process in libraries, this document reviews the literature on personal space research that has been conducted over the last 20 years. Following a general review of the roots of such research, the numerous studies that are described are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Environmental Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
