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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Personal and peripersonal spaces define body-proximal regions.
  • Peripersonal space boundaries show sigmoid response facilitation.
  • Personal space intrusion elicits discomfort, but its boundary characteristics are less understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if discomfort during personal space intrusion exhibits a sigmoid transition.
  • To determine if the boundary of this discomfort transition relates to personality traits.
  • To explore the potential link between personal space boundaries and peripersonal space mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • A computerized discomfort judgment task with 45 participants.
  • Simulated approach of human silhouettes at varying distances (200-16 cm).
  • Sigmoid, linear, and power law function approximation of discomfort ratings; correlation with personality measures (social anxiety, Big Five, motor coordination).

Main Results:

  • Discomfort ratings increased as simulated distance decreased.
  • Sigmoid functions best approximated discomfort changes in most participants (38/45).
  • More distant discomfort transition points correlated with higher social anxiety, dyspraxia, neuroticism, and lower agreeableness.

Conclusions:

  • Discomfort during personal space intrusion shows a sigmoid transition, analogous to peripersonal space.
  • Personality traits significantly influence the perceived boundary of personal space.
  • Subjective discomfort judgments may quantify personal space limits, warranting further investigation into shared underlying mechanisms.