personal space. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Personal space is the

physical space surrounding one's body. It is usually thought of as a circular area

of space about a foot or maybe even as much as a foot and a half. Maybe up to

about 18 inches around a person's body. If another person enters this space

without being invited or welcomed, it can cause someone to feel threatened or

uncomfortable. So this is what we talk about is somebody's personal space.

All right. Let's continue. The origin of this term, of the term personal space

comes from Edward T Hall, he was a cultural anthropologist. He also coined

the term proxemies which is defined as the study of human use of space and the

influence it has on behavior, communication, and social interaction of

people in a book called " The Hidden Dimension. "

All right. So of course , you probably nowadays though if you come across it

you might study this in psychology. Psychology class is where they might

cover some ideas about personal space and you know how people naturally react

to personal space. All right. Let's cover the examples and

we'll go over that with the examples I guess. All right. So let's look at number

one. Nobody likes one's personal space to be

invaded. That's what we usually say we usually say somebody invades your

personal space when it is uncalled for. When it's unnecessary. All right. However,

though there are a lot of situations where people will make exceptions just

to get along. Where space is tight. Everybody's got to be in one area. You

might make some exceptions to this rule, but generally if there's more than

enough space, you don't want somebody this area. There's also other cases too

where it feels weird. Like if there's lots of space around. Like say somebody

was on a train and there's like lots of empty spaces all around, but somebody

else comes and just for some reason they just want to sit right next to you when

there's a lot of free spaces around. That may make you feel a little uncomfortable

too because you might actually broaden your idea of personal space at this

point. Because there's so much around and it feels strange.

Now if the train started getting crowded and somebody sat next to you that's

quite normal, but if the... if the seats we're all still empty and they just want

to sit next to you and there's a lot of free seats around you might also feel

like somebody's entering your personal space. All right. Let's look at the second

one here. In a big city people often make exceptions and bear their personal space

to be invaded in you know, in crowded buses trains or elevators. So, so if

you're on a bus and or train and a lot of people got to squeeze their body very

close to you, everybody knows this is the way it has

to go. So even though people tend to get more silent in this sort of situation,

and they tend to kind of like just focus and look at a certain direction. You

notice this especially in an elevator. I mean actually to be honest with you

everybody usually faces towards the. the the exit of the elevator as it goes out.

If for example , for example a person turned in the elevator and just looked

the opposite way , everybody would think they were weird. And you know, they

would think what's wrong with this person ? Or maybe they might think more

about that, but people will make exceptions about their personal space.

Like I said they get more quiet and they just kind of go into a little bit for

stare when their personal space is invaded until you know probably just for

the temporary amount of time that it must be invaded.

You know, when the situation calls for it. All right and let's look at number three

here. I felt uncomfortable when he leaned too close and entered my personal space.

Yeah, especially if you didn't want the person

to and you felt that it you know, it wasn't really necessary for them to do it and

it wasn't an accident or something like that.

We'll make exceptions for for things like this. Okay. .Anyway, I hope you got

it I hope you found it to be informative. I hope it was food for thought.

Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.