A friend of mine is a close talker, although he's really a nice guy, he always gets waaay to close to you when he's talking. And I have to slowly back away every time hahaha
It would be interesting to see how the size of the space and the number of people in it affects personal space. If I'm on a bus with only two other people, and a new passenger comes on and sits right next to me, that is way weirder than if the bus is crowded and there are no places to sit that aren't close to someone.
This is really interesting, I've always wondered why no one really talks about the science of wanting our own personal bubble. I'm really glad I found this. It's also really amazing how he put that into cultural differences, because we learn the boundaries of personal space from a very young age.
1) Personal Space 2) Personal Space 3) Stay out of my Personal Space 4) Keep away from my Personal Space 5) Get outta dat Personal Space 6) Stay away from my Personal Space 7) Keep away from dat Personal Space 8) Personal Space 9) Personal Space
We do find it uncomfortable to have our personal space invaded, but there are exceptions to these that I find intriguing. Such as when we ride public transportation like the subway.
I guess that it has to do on wether you have a choice or not. In a nearly empty elevator you don't need to stand really close to each other. In this situation is can be considered invasive or even harassing. In a packed bus you don't really have a choice, a lot of people need to fit in so it's gonna be a bit crowed. If someone stands really close to you it's because they have to due to the lack of space. People can still feel uncomfortable in this situation but we're less likely to question the other persons intentions
Banana Party Ikr. That's the most intriguing part, I mean if we really need to get going that preservation of space is gone from our minds and we really don't feel uncomfortable next to one another. But I also thought, men even if we feel like we really need to pee so badly, if we notice that a free urinal is between two that are occupied, we would rather wait for one to leave and use that one instead. This time the personal space is more important and outweighs your immediate need for relief.
Nah, personal space applies on public transit as well - but as a share of available space. People accept standing shoulder to shoulder in a packed car because there really isn't any other option - but if someone gets on and you are the only other rider, and they walk all they way up to you and sit down in the seat next to you - HUGE violation of personal space.
That's because it's understood that people will be sitting, standing, passing close to other people. So our 'personal bubble' is much closer to being just our own body. You would still feel your space had been invaded if someone held their hand or fingers pointing very close to your face or under your chin, for example, but not if someone was holding an overhead handle/bar and * happened * to have their hand close to your head.
Do different cultures have different comfort levels of proxemics? Where I live there is a large Hispanic population and I've noticed a lot of closeness that makes me super uncomfortable. For example someone will sit next to me instead of the next seat over on a bus or movie theater seat. Oftentimes while standing in line at any store I have to spread myself out because someone will be close to touching me with their cart or body. Cracked should follow this up with a video about proxemics in different cultures.
Yes, they do. For example, normal speaking distance for Germans is roughly an arm's length or more, and there's no touching. Only couples hold hands. In Arab countries, personal space between men and men and women and women is much reduced but higher between different sexes, and it is common for men to hold hands. Southern cultures will touch even relative strangers a lot while talking, while Northerners don't ever do that. And holding hands is really common among women in Asia. Not doing so as a friend is a signal that you don't like them as much as they thought, so they take issue. Also, public displays of affection between even married couples are uncommon across much of Asia and in most Arabic countries. Here's an example. www.thenational.ae/self-emiratisation-cultures-are-poles-apart-on-personal-space-1.362732
@@miriamearthling4107 thank you for sharing this. I am currently in a communications class that is expanding on this very topic. This is extremely helpful! Thank you again!
We Brazilians have a hard time "respecting" someone's personal space. It was hard for me to adapt to Americans because the of this huge cultural difference.
+Navadra Froohar while psychology is a pseudoscience, and a lot of knowledge is technically pseudoscience, but despite the negative connotations it has, pseudoscience is no less valid or important, there just different. Science disprooves and pseudoscience prooves.
Navadra Froohar Psychology IS a pseudoscience, people just have a false definition of the word. My father and mother are psychotherapists and they themselves admitted that it is a pseudoscience. In psychology for example, you can find lots and lots of correlations, someone is insecure by a lack of hugs or because they were hugged too much. But for example Einstein, instead of finding the thousands of things to prove his theories, he only tried to find ways to disprove it. You can make lots of predictions that happen to be right based on pseudosciences, but that does not mean that the thing in question is the only reason for the result.
I think your sense of cultural space might be culturally defined too. Ever noticed how people queue up for an atm in thailand? People almost touch each other, while here in holland an arms length distance is what we feel comfortable with. Ever noticed how Finnish people queue up for e.g. the bus? They stand about 4 meters apart it seems
Many who chose anthropology are like that. Want to be many things. Many prominent anthropologists are graduates from other disciplines. Franz Boas, Leslie White, James G Fraser, Levi Strauss...
So what is sneaking into and hovering around someone's personal space called? That's a thing too based on my own experience. Or intentionally violating someone's personal space and acting like it's by accident? Also all too common. And how does staring factor into this?
Make fun all you want. Who's more pathetic, the one that's "insecure" or the one that spends time going out their way to aggravate others insecurities? I'd say the later.
Take note of people's expressions when you get to close - so you don't become a close talker. On the other hand, if you are a boss, then stepping into another person's space to give them an order really delivers the message and pushes them to say yes, quickly, so they can have their space back.
Congrats. Someone took careful notes in their Nonverbal communication class. But without the context of cultural norms, differences in cultural norms and how we negotiate breeches in those norms this would barely get you a pass in a Nonverbal midterm. Different context change the expectations and the rules of proxemics. Two people in an elevator expect a different amount of personal space than ten people in the same elevator. In cultures where there is most stratification of class, race or gender different rules are in play compared to environments with similar class, race, gender. Even how we treat someone who breeches these rules is different. Think about how we regard a space hog especially on a subway of bus that fills up. It's only 4 minutes but you could do a better job on proxemics than a History of segment.
Rahsaan Footman I will admit, when I read the first line of your comment I thought wow someone is being oddly upset about this and then I kept reading and I was like wow why didn’t they touch on any of that in the video way to go internet stranger 👍👍👍👍👍
I believe this video is strictly to show the different spaces defined in a general sense, so as to help you understand the pure basics of the study. To go into more detail regarding cultures, in-group, out-group, coculture, etc, would make for a very long video that takes away from the introduction of how the spaces came to be defined. They do not expand on the differences of how space is invaded, because that is something that should be shared in a separate video. I do hope they post such a video though, because that is a super fascinating explanation on how we interact with other people! Excellent take away you have here, thank you for sharing!
So i work in a cubical without separators, my colleagues to my left and right are about 4 feet away from me, now i know why i feel uncomfortable working there, they are technically in my personal space.
Because although Edward T. Hall quantified aspects of personal space, the video didn't elaborate on how we can use the information to make any sort of predictions. Science is a tool that allows us to measure, predict, and control aspects of our natural world (e.g., physics and gravity, chemistry and atoms, behaviorism and behavior). This video doesn't sound sciencey because none of the information was shown to be used in a way to allow us to predict any sort of relationship. Sure there are correlations between certain levels of personal space and the relationship those two people have, but clearly there are outliers, so it doesn't allow us to predict with certainty. My question is: How much of these personal space levels are completely cultural and can be changed overtime, and how much is embedded in our biology?
If the video had gone on longer it would've noted that hall came up with proxemics, in part to describe the differing personal space bubbles of people and cultures across the world. This is much closer to a system of measurement than it is a theory of social interaction. Having this system allows you to study human social interactions without having to whip out your thesaurus and try your hand at poetry (they sat so close they could feel the fire of passion burning in each other's eyes). In the same way, that being able to measure kilograms means we never have to say " it was super heavy, bigger than a horse but smaller than a small house"
The video just described what is proxemic. This is to make social situations quantifiable for research purposes. You may have to read about about psychometric to understand the bigger picture.
troublesomebirdsong It just bugs me when people pretend that something is a "field", to make it seem more important and interesting. The video was okay bra
Kabitu1 Yeah, given the relevance of this research and the amount of people who are mainly focused on working in this "field" it's kind of superfluous and misleading. really only useful to put in the title of a ted talk or video like this to make it seem more catchy important. also: it's only a criticism of the video title, the video was okay as i said.
Wow, it's so nice to see that your 3 twins found time to join you in this video.
Gasp! Walter White! I thought you did great in Breaking Bad
Did you just say 3 twins?
Nyang Ruot You're goddamn right!
+Walter White
Yes!
wait! how can you have 3 twins?
I'm sick of this skin in my personal space, I'm taking it off
Definitely a Rick and Morty reference
first thing i thought, when i read the headline :D
interdemsional cable 2
WUBBA LUB DUB DUB
One personal space.
Two personal space.
Three, get away from my personal space.
I don't like this skin in my personal space. *tears off skin*
Rick and Morty!Love it haha
Haha why youuuuuuu
We learnt this in theatre - it's actually incredibly useful to work out your place in a room/set/scene in relation to the objects and characters in it
A friend of mine is a close talker, although he's really a nice guy, he always gets waaay to close to you when he's talking. And I have to slowly back away every time hahaha
Even perfectly normal elevator rides are awkward
It would be interesting to see how the size of the space and the number of people in it affects personal space. If I'm on a bus with only two other people, and a new passenger comes on and sits right next to me, that is way weirder than if the bus is crowded and there are no places to sit that aren't close to someone.
This is really interesting, I've always wondered why no one really talks about the science of wanting our own personal bubble. I'm really glad I found this. It's also really amazing how he put that into cultural differences, because we learn the boundaries of personal space from a very young age.
1) Personal Space
2) Personal Space
3) Stay out of my Personal Space
4) Keep away from my Personal Space
5) Get outta dat Personal Space
6) Stay away from my Personal Space
7) Keep away from dat Personal Space
8) Personal Space
9) Personal Space
Woh Wooh! Who's around me right now?!
I'm in SSSPPPAAAAACCCEEEEE...!!!
P E R S O N A L S P A C E !!!!:0
I really like this guy's face, he always looks so friendly
I like his face too.
@@cleocarter me too
i like his face. good face.
Abrupt ending? Great video.
I love these studies which have a creative visual explanation or definition, like in Proximics
This is actually a theory applied in Interior Design and Architecture
Yes. Along with ergonomics and anthropometrics 😊
This video has suddenly gained a new meaning.
We do find it uncomfortable to have our personal space invaded, but there are exceptions to these that I find intriguing. Such as when we ride public transportation like the subway.
I guess that it has to do on wether you have a choice or not. In a nearly empty elevator you don't need to stand really close to each other. In this situation is can be considered invasive or even harassing. In a packed bus you don't really have a choice, a lot of people need to fit in so it's gonna be a bit crowed. If someone stands really close to you it's because they have to due to the lack of space. People can still feel uncomfortable in this situation but we're less likely to question the other persons intentions
Banana Party Ikr. That's the most intriguing part, I mean if we really need to get going that preservation of space is gone from our minds and we really don't feel uncomfortable next to one another. But I also thought, men even if we feel like we really need to pee so badly, if we notice that a free urinal is between two that are occupied, we would rather wait for one to leave and use that one instead. This time the personal space is more important and outweighs your immediate need for relief.
In those instances you usually give space by selective use of eye contact. An implied space
Nah, personal space applies on public transit as well - but as a share of available space. People accept standing shoulder to shoulder in a packed car because there really isn't any other option - but if someone gets on and you are the only other rider, and they walk all they way up to you and sit down in the seat next to you - HUGE violation of personal space.
That's because it's understood that people will be sitting, standing, passing close to other people.
So our 'personal bubble' is much closer to being just our own body.
You would still feel your space had been invaded if someone held their hand or fingers pointing very close to your face or under your chin, for example, but not if someone was holding an overhead handle/bar and * happened * to have their hand close to your head.
You should visit *Finland.*
We've made a new definition for the word *personal space.*
_(Doesn't apply on sauna tho.)_
My Northern European personal space got smaller when I started taking Xanax
You should visit Latin America, there's no such thing as personal space
My date's personal space was penetrated after I gave her some Xanax.
This is very interesting. I took a communications course in university about this, and it's all about vibes and attraction.
'vibes'.
well you are a vegan no wonder you took that course...
oh look a vegan. hello
911: What's your emergency?
Hey did I tell you im vegan?
911: Sir, what's your emergency
Hey I'm vegan
*****
What a pathetic post.
Do different cultures have different comfort levels of proxemics? Where I live there is a large Hispanic population and I've noticed a lot of closeness that makes me super uncomfortable. For example someone will sit next to me instead of the next seat over on a bus or movie theater seat. Oftentimes while standing in line at any store I have to spread myself out because someone will be close to touching me with their cart or body. Cracked should follow this up with a video about proxemics in different cultures.
Yes, they do. For example, normal speaking distance for Germans is roughly an arm's length or more, and there's no touching. Only couples hold hands. In Arab countries, personal space between men and men and women and women is much reduced but higher between different sexes, and it is common for men to hold hands. Southern cultures will touch even relative strangers a lot while talking, while Northerners don't ever do that. And holding hands is really common among women in Asia. Not doing so as a friend is a signal that you don't like them as much as they thought, so they take issue. Also, public displays of affection between even married couples are uncommon across much of Asia and in most Arabic countries. Here's an example.
www.thenational.ae/self-emiratisation-cultures-are-poles-apart-on-personal-space-1.362732
Try Indonesia, China or...I guess..India, and you'll perceive the USA as pretty good in comparison :D
@@miriamearthling4107 thank you for sharing this. I am currently in a communications class that is expanding on this very topic. This is extremely helpful! Thank you again!
imagine setting firm boundaries so ur not uncomfortable socially in any situation due to anothers actions...
Can't get enough of that personal space! Get out of my personal space!
Is that from Rick and Morty ?
no, it's from the Bee Movie
Omg what a great video
I would literally give this video a million likes if i could. Such things bothers me more often than any others.
I'm going to have to learn this notation system...this may be the best shorthand for writing down blocking for stagecraft.
I wonder how Muslim scholars may use this to describe ethics in Islam. Especially regarding intergender interaction.
:) The public transportation managers should watch this when they are forcing people to travel squished like sardines.
Gonna end up doing Haptics, Chronemics etc etc next?
We Brazilians have a hard time "respecting" someone's personal space. It was hard for me to adapt to Americans because the of this huge cultural difference.
the show we all grew to love: The Personal Space Show
WOW!! somebody share this with airplane manufacturers and airlines. I would like my private and personal space respected on an airplane
it's kinda cool how we just discussed a snippet of this in class yesterday
This guy is probably a celebrity in Finland.
26 people hate learning
58 now
+Navadra Froohar while psychology is a pseudoscience, and a lot of knowledge is technically pseudoscience, but despite the negative connotations it has, pseudoscience is no less valid or important, there just different. Science disprooves and pseudoscience prooves.
Navadra Froohar Psychology IS a pseudoscience, people just have a false definition of the word. My father and mother are psychotherapists and they themselves admitted that it is a pseudoscience. In psychology for example, you can find lots and lots of correlations, someone is insecure by a lack of hugs or because they were hugged too much. But for example Einstein, instead of finding the thousands of things to prove his theories, he only tried to find ways to disprove it. You can make lots of predictions that happen to be right based on pseudosciences, but that does not mean that the thing in question is the only reason for the result.
This is great, like VSauce style. Keep it up! :)
In case it's not obvious: this is why social distance since pandemic refers to 6ft apart--all because of Edwards!
the background music is amazing
Amazing video!
I think your sense of cultural space might be culturally defined too. Ever noticed how people queue up for an atm in thailand? People almost touch each other, while here in holland an arms length distance is what we feel comfortable with. Ever noticed how Finnish people queue up for e.g. the bus? They stand about 4 meters apart it seems
Did these studies come before or after the discovery of proprioception (our sense of space)? I'd love to know if one informed the other.
THIS IS SO INTERESTING - WOO
I want to be an Anthropologist and so many more things
Many who chose anthropology are like that. Want to be many things.
Many prominent anthropologists are graduates from other disciplines. Franz Boas, Leslie White, James G Fraser, Levi Strauss...
I really like this it's interesting I want to read the full study, or at least try lol
I wish their is a subject about this in school like Oxford University and others.
you expect this class to take up an entire semester?
What's the name of the music that starts at 1:58? THAT WAS AMAZING, it had a vibe do melancholic... So divine, so strange
Do you ever feel like whenever someone is talking to you standing up and you're sitting down that they will just spit on your face?
watching this while sardined on a city subway with sweaty, angry bodies. ugh....
"A woman could feel her dance partners stomach heat up" umm sorry love but that was not his stomach lol
😂💀
bahahahha!!! I thought the same thing! That is an automatic response baby, he isn't just using his muscles, his muscles are responding to you!
Luv my personal space!!!
So what is sneaking into and hovering around someone's personal space called? That's a thing too based on my own experience. Or intentionally violating someone's personal space and acting like it's by accident? Also all too common. And how does staring factor into this?
dont look at me im insecure
Make fun all you want. Who's more pathetic, the one that's "insecure" or the one that spends time going out their way to aggravate others insecurities? I'd say the later.
In some cases I bet there is some passive aggressiveness going on as well as
dominance.
That was the thing I was looking for, since I've never known how to look at people without having them staring back at me with fear/anxiety
because you were standing too close and wondering what's wrong?
Very accurate nowadays, Hello Social Distancing!
I was on it yesterday
I kind a understand but how can I use this?
Take note of people's expressions when you get to close - so you don't become a close talker. On the other hand, if you are a boss, then stepping into another person's space to give them an order really delivers the message and pushes them to say yes, quickly, so they can have their space back.
Those guys look alike.
....what?
4:29 But did he smash tho?
3:35 my major takeaways
The guy in the video is so godamn cute
This man would have thrown his studies out the window in some countries where the concept of "personal space" doesn't even exist.
I think 2020 reeeeally cleared any problem with personal space boundaries... LOL
Proxemics is an actual thing? Wow
I learned this in nursing school. personal space. intimate space. public space
1 Personal Space
2 Personal Space
3 Personal Space
Wasn't there a Norwegian Artist that created words to objectively describe smells?
Nah man, NERV conceptualised and solidified the idea of personal space alongside Angel research. ATF and N2 mines, man.
Cas should see this
Shout out to Rick and Morty and Intergalactic cable bc we all learned a certain someone will go berserk about their personal space...
Now do one about safe spaces.
The only safe space is jail, as you do not collect 200 dollars or land on other's property
I can tell you, if that cute presenter was on the elevator with me, he can invade any and all of my personal space.
How haven't I seen this before?
How did you edit this video?
What software did you use?
Make a video about Dallas shootout killing 4 officers.
Congrats. Someone took careful notes in their Nonverbal communication class. But without the context of cultural norms, differences in cultural norms and how we negotiate breeches in those norms this would barely get you a pass in a Nonverbal midterm.
Different context change the expectations and the rules of proxemics. Two people in an elevator expect a different amount of personal space than ten people in the same elevator. In cultures where there is most stratification of class, race or gender different rules are in play compared to environments with similar class, race, gender. Even how we treat someone who breeches these rules is different. Think about how we regard a space hog especially on a subway of bus that fills up.
It's only 4 minutes but you could do a better job on proxemics than a History of segment.
Rahsaan Footman I will admit, when I read the first line of your comment I thought wow someone is being oddly upset about this and then I kept reading and I was like wow why didn’t they touch on any of that in the video way to go internet stranger 👍👍👍👍👍
I believe this video is strictly to show the different spaces defined in a general sense, so as to help you understand the pure basics of the study. To go into more detail regarding cultures, in-group, out-group, coculture, etc, would make for a very long video that takes away from the introduction of how the spaces came to be defined. They do not expand on the differences of how space is invaded, because that is something that should be shared in a separate video. I do hope they post such a video though, because that is a super fascinating explanation on how we interact with other people! Excellent take away you have here, thank you for sharing!
Did you meet him at mat tabots
Espacio personal Olga! Hay otra persona que penso en ramallo de la telenovela violetta?
my biggest pet peeve! :O
let me step up right here and lets get stepped up, and why dont we get stepped up, personal space up in this place.
What is the music name ?
JEREMY I GOT YOU THE DOCUMENTS O_O
Jeremy? I got you! ....The documents?!?
Now why don't we step up here and everybody gets stepped up, and let's gets some stepped up personal space up in this place!
My name is Jeremy and I found the whispering to be a little too close for comfort.
So i work in a cubical without separators, my colleagues to my left and right are about 4 feet away from me, now i know why i feel uncomfortable working there, they are technically in my personal space.
BS Women's studies degree
BS Public Space degree
(BS stands for bullshit)
Wow you're so edgey
triggered
?? why it doesn't sound sciency ??
Maybe, so that people would understand it better? I prefer the normal way though
Because although Edward T. Hall quantified aspects of personal space, the video didn't elaborate on how we can use the information to make any sort of predictions. Science is a tool that allows us to measure, predict, and control aspects of our natural world (e.g., physics and gravity, chemistry and atoms, behaviorism and behavior).
This video doesn't sound sciencey because none of the information was shown to be used in a way to allow us to predict any sort of relationship. Sure there are correlations between certain levels of personal space and the relationship those two people have, but clearly there are outliers, so it doesn't allow us to predict with certainty.
My question is: How much of these personal space levels are completely cultural and can be changed overtime, and how much is embedded in our biology?
If the video had gone on longer it would've noted that hall came up with proxemics, in part to describe the differing personal space bubbles of people and cultures across the world.
This is much closer to a system of measurement than it is a theory of social interaction. Having this system allows you to study human social interactions without having to whip out your thesaurus and try your hand at poetry (they sat so close they could feel the fire of passion burning in each other's eyes).
In the same way, that being able to measure kilograms means we never have to say " it was super heavy, bigger than a horse but smaller than a small house"
The video just described what is proxemic. This is to make social situations quantifiable for research purposes. You may have to read about about psychometric to understand the bigger picture.
What about on the train?
It says i'm no allowed to access the file
I don't have a personal space bubble as long as the other person is attractive ;)
You must hate the mirror then.
+death mam good one haha
Space bubble... Daisnotonfire anyone?
Does this poor man not have friends to do a video with him?
Anthropologists unite!
That elevator ride was hella romantic
The Getty Museum in LA is built off of personal space.
Did anyone else yawn at 2:45 ?
What about non American societies lol
next up, Samantha and the boys, on the Northsiders.
Hey, Get Out Off My Personal Space!!!
I get so aggravated when people are talking loud in public.
Came here because of ayanokoji taking about this
Soooo, could I sell my self as "not really a public speaker, more like a personal or intimate speaker"?
Cool word you invented there
Do you mean the word 'Proxemics'? ... Did you... watch the video?
troublesomebirdsong It just bugs me when people pretend that something is a "field", to make it seem more important and interesting. The video was okay bra
If somone wanted to study and describe personal space and interactions, should they rather not have made up a term for it?
Kabitu1 Yeah, given the relevance of this research and the amount of people who are mainly focused on working in this "field" it's kind of superfluous and misleading. really only useful to put in the title of a ted talk or video like this to make it seem more catchy important.
also: it's only a criticism of the video title, the video was okay as i said.
erraticbrain | video trash SO long as we're in agreement
audio is way too low in this video