"You need to BACK OFF!" Ever had that thought when someone came a step too close for comfort? Well, you're not alone of course. Trace explains how our personal space works.

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Attitudes without objects: Evidence for a dispositional attitude, its measurement, and its consequences.
http://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/3...
"We hypothesized that individuals may differ in the dispositional tendency to have positive vs. negative attitudes, a trait termed the dispositional attitude."

Size of personal space is affected by anxiety
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_release...
"The space surrounding the body (known by scientists as 'peripersonal space'), which has previously been thought of as having a gradual boundary, has been given physical limits by new research into the relationship between anxiety and personal space."

Why Do We Have Personal Space?
http://www.livescience.com/20801-pers...
"Thou shall not transgress thy neighbor's personal space. It's among the most sacrosanct rules of social behavior. But how do these invisible bubbles of space surrounding each of us come to exist in the first place, and why does it feel so icky when they overlap?"

Personal space: how close is too close?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/sc...
"It is a long-standing rule of good social etiquette -- stay out of other people's personal space."

Understanding Body Language
http://psychology.about.com/od/nonver...
"Have you ever heard someone refer to their need for "personal space"? Have you ever started to feel uncomfortable when someone stands just a little too close to you? The term proxemics refers to the distance between people as they interact. Just as body movements and facial expressions can communicate a great deal of nonverbal information, so can this physical space between individuals."

Personal Space
http://money.cnn.com/interactive/econ...
"How much space each person has in some of the world's major cities"

How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2...
"Our perspectives on personal space — the distance we keep between the person in front of us at an ATM, the way we subdivide the area of an elevator — are often heavily influenced by the norms of the places we inhabit."

Coding of peripersonal space in inferior premotor cortex
http://jn.physiology.org/content/76/1...
"We studied the functional properties of neurons in the caudal part of inferior area 6 (area F4) in awake monkeys. In agreement with previous reports, we found that the large majority (87%) of neurons responded to sensory stimuli."

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