Finally, personal space may also reflect interpersonal attraction. As Hebel and Retnzch (2022) found, our chosen physical proximity also appears to reflect how much we like others.

The United States was ranked 13th in terms of tolerating closeness with strangers. We like, on average, a minimum of about 35 inches between them and us.

For those of us who grew up in the United States, our preferred personal spaces are: less than a foot and a half for intimate conversations, a foot and a half to 4 feet for personal ones, 4 to 12 ...

In a world where personal space is often a precious commodity, ... with outdoor recreation generating $459.8 billion in consumer spending in the United States alone in 2019. ...

How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space. 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 ...

The report calculated apartment space per renter by analyzing floor plan data from 254 cities across the United States alongside the average number of renters living in a household, using ...

Researchers in the United States say the personal-space boundary during the pre-pandemic norm was about 3 feet with strangers and a little more than 2 feet with an acquaintance, ...

Personal space is the area surrounding each of us that we regard as psychologically ours. When that space is violated, we feel discomfort and sometimes feel anger. ... In the United States, ...

How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space. ... very different than it does in the United States - very Brazilian. PAULA MOURA: I've been to other countries and nobody touches each other.