Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space

Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space

The regulation of interpersonal distance and social space plays a central role in social behavior, and intrusions into personal space often lead to irritations in social interactions. Although there is plenty of research on people’s actual proxemics in social interactions, less is known about how in...

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Main Author: Markus Paulus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
social space
reasoning
preschool children
social distance
social cognition
action prediction
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02479/full
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spelling doaj-8c4c03ea966846fa9028f2bb77c888a72020-11-25T01:31:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-12-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.02479400891Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal SpaceMarkus PaulusThe regulation of interpersonal distance and social space plays a central role in social behavior, and intrusions into personal space often lead to irritations in social interactions. Although there is plenty of research on people’s actual proxemics in social interactions, less is known about how individuals represent and reason about social space, and whether there are age-related differences. The current study examined preschool children’s and adults’ predictions about others’ interpersonal distances in two experiments. The findings show that preschool children have systematic expectations about others’ proxemics. In addition, we found age-related differences as adults assumed people to keep greater interpersonal distance than preschool children.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02479/fullsocial spacereasoningpreschool childrensocial distancesocial cognitionaction prediction
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social space
reasoning
preschool children
social distance
social cognition
action prediction
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title Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space
title_short Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space
title_full Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space
title_fullStr Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space
title_full_unstemmed Preschool Children’s and Adults’ Expectations About Interpersonal Space
title_sort preschool children’s and adults’ expectations about interpersonal space
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Psychology
issn 1664-1078
publishDate 2018-12-01
description The regulation of interpersonal distance and social space plays a central role in social behavior, and intrusions into personal space often lead to irritations in social interactions. Although there is plenty of research on people’s actual proxemics in social interactions, less is known about how individuals represent and reason about social space, and whether there are age-related differences. The current study examined preschool children’s and adults’ predictions about others’ interpersonal distances in two experiments. The findings show that preschool children have systematic expectations about others’ proxemics. In addition, we found age-related differences as adults assumed people to keep greater interpersonal distance than preschool children.
topic social space
reasoning
preschool children
social distance
social cognition
action prediction
url https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02479/full
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