APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Asymmetry in Preferred Interpersonal Distance between Approaching and Being Approached Varies with Agreeableness and Openness

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Social

  • Wendy Schweigert
    Bradley University
  • Adam Bitar
    Bradley University
  • Andrew Freeman
    Bradley University
  • Goodrich Brittany
    The Pavillion Behavioral System
  • Gorrie Kayli
    Bradley University
  • Brittany Hooten
    Marquette University
  • Morgan Lain
    Bradley University
  • Austin Lair
    Bradley University
  • Abigail Schmidt
    Bradley University
  • Danielle Segerstrom
    Bradley University
  • Bailey Thompson
    Bradley University
  • Priyal Patel
    Bradley University

Abstract

People will allow others to approach them closer than they prefer to approach another. This effect is strongest with those high on Agreeableness but disappears with those high on Openness. Interpersonal research must take into account personality traits as well as whether one is approaching or being approached.

Personality

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