The relation of status incongruence to personal space was investigated. Status incongruence was defined by age differences between the subject and a variety of targets, and personal space was defined as the magnitude of interpersonal distance a subject maintained between himself/herself and a target of a given age. Status incongruence was found to influence the amount of personal space in two experiments (n = 30 and n = 96). This relation of status incongruence to personal space was not found to vary with subject gender.
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