The Science of Personal Space: Why We Need Boundaries and 5 Ways to Deal When They're Crossed
Experts explain why we get uncomfortable when someone pops our personal bubble.You know how uncomfortable you start to feel when a coworker hovers over you as she looks at something on your computer screen? Or how you start to back up and scan the room for an exit strategy when a friend of a friend gets too close as he talks to you at a party?
All of us cringe when someone invades our personal space. Heck, it can even feel icky when we watch it happen to someone else. But there’s a good reason things get awkward fast when someone busts through that buffer, says Michael Graziano, PhD, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University and the author of“Our unconscious understanding of personal space is not only a fundamental way we protect ourselves,” he says.
This spatial calculation helps us do simple things, like move through a room without bumping into objects. It also helps us navigate social interactions, such as knowing where to stand with respect to other people at a party. Having this unconscious sense of the space around the body helps us feel safe, says Graziano.
This ability to gauge the space around us is very important for survival, says Daphne Holt, MD, PhD, a psychiatrist and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School who studies personal space. Her research shows that the parietal and premotor cortexes become more active when something or someone is moving toward the body than when it’s moving away.
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