Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the cultural, behavioral, and sociological aspects of spatial distances between individuals.
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- noun The study of the
effects of the physicaldistance between people in different cultures and societies
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- noun the study of spatial distances between individuals in different cultures and situations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The anthropologist, Edward Hall, coined the word "proxemics" to describe phenomena like territoriality among office workers.
Forbes.com: News Carol Kinsey Goman 2011
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The anthropologist, Edward Hall, coined the word "proxemics" to describe phenomena like territoriality among office workers.
Forbes.com: News Carol Kinsey Goman 2011
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Hall developed observations like this into a field called proxemics, the analysis of how human beings collectively inhabit space.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Hall developed observations like this into a field called proxemics, the analysis of how human beings collectively inhabit space.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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This skill set, referred to as proxemics, provides another clear example of a Zero Order Skill.
It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend Richard Lavoie 2005
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He allies Montaigne's acute sense of the meaning of human proximity to "proxemics", "the anthropology of people's relationships to each other in space" invented in the Sixties.
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"proxemics" measures how far apart people like to be when conducting different kinds of conversation.
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Edward T. Hall, the cultural anthropologist who coined the term in 1963, defined proxemics as "the interrelated observations and theories of humans' use of space as a specialized elaboration of culture".
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