Body Buffer Zone

TitleBody Buffer Zone
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1964
AuthorsHorowitz, M, Duff DF, Stratton LO
JournalArchives of General Psychiatry
VolumeXI
Pagination651-656
AbstractCarried 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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