Proxemics
and observation anxiety in Japan: Non-verbal and cognitive responses
M.H. Bond & Y. Iwata |
The
effects of spatial intrusion and of observation anxiety were examined
in an interview situation using feeling reports, person perception
ratings, and non-verbal measures. Sixteen Japanese females were interviewed
twice by can-federates who were appropriately or intrusively seated
with video tape equipment running in the presence of half the subjects
during their two interviews. No effects were seen for observation
anxiety. In response to the close-sitting interviewers, however,
subjects reported a wide variety of changes in feeling, interpreted
as withdrawal, and rated the intrusive interviewers negatively across
a number of person perception scales. Subjects gave longer pauses,
fewer glances, and backward-leaning postures during intrusion, a
non-verbal pattern of withdrawal consistent with their cognitive
responses. Relationships of these results to other Western and Japanese
non-verbal research were discussed.
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