Cui Shulei, Yang Tianshu, Liu Ning
State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jun 15;14:1148395. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1148395. eCollection 2023.
Personal space (PS) is a safe area around an individual's body that affects spatial distance when socially interacting with others. Previous studies have shown that social interaction may modulate PS. However, these findings are often confounded by the effects of familiarization. Furthermore, whether the potential regulatory effects of social interaction on PS can be generalized from interacting confederates to strangers remains unclear.
To answer these questions, we enrolled 115 participants in a carefully designed experiment.
We found that prosocial interaction in the form of a cooperative task effectively reduced PS, and this regulatory effect could be generalized from interacting confederates to non-interacting confederates.
These findings deepen our understanding of PS regulation and may be aid in the diagnosis and rehabilitation of dysfunctional social behaviors.
个人空间(PS)是个体身体周围的一个安全区域,在与他人进行社交互动时会影响空间距离。先前的研究表明,社交互动可能会调节个人空间。然而,这些发现常常受到熟悉效应的混淆。此外,社交互动对个人空间的潜在调节作用是否能从与协同者的互动推广到与陌生人的互动尚不清楚。
为了回答这些问题,我们招募了115名参与者进行一项精心设计的实验。
我们发现,以合作任务形式进行的亲社会互动有效地缩小了个人空间,并且这种调节作用可以从与协同者的互动推广到与非协同者的互动。
这些发现加深了我们对个人空间调节的理解,可能有助于功能失调的社会行为的诊断和康复。