| Title | Body Buffer Zone |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1964 |
| Authors | Horowitz, M, Duff DF, Stratton LO |
| Journal | Archives of General Psychiatry |
| Volume | XI |
| Pagination | 651-656 |
| Abstract | Carried out experimets with people approaching either other people, or an inanimate object (a hat stand). (Used schizophrenic and non-schitzo subjects). Normally people approached the other people to consistantly greater distances than they did to the inanimate object, what ever the context or situation. Carried onut further an docnfoirmed by Sommer 1969. Schizophrenic and “normal” patients approached a hatstand more closely than other humans when asked to approach to a distance that participants found “comfortable”. |
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