The study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of POPULATION DENSITY on BEHAVIOR, COMMUNICATION, and SOCIAL INTERACTION. Proxemics is a subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch), KINESICS (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time).
Disciplines concerned with the study of human and animal behavior.
Synonyms: Behavioral Science, Proxemics, Proxemic, Behavioral Sciences, Sciences, Behavioral, Science, Behavioral
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use for the specialty only ,1969; PROXEMICS was heading 1975-96 (see under SPATIAL BEHAVIOR 1975-90 and 1997-2014) ,1969; PROXEMICS was heading 1975-96 (see under SPATIAL BEHAVIOR 1975-90 and 1997-2014)
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