EXPLORATION OF ATTITUDES VIA PHYSICAL INTERPERSONAL DISTANCE TOWARD THE OBESE, DRUG USERS, HOMOSEXUALS, POLICE AND OTHER MARGINAL FIGURES.

The article presents a study, which aims to explore attitudes via social distance toward groups with varying degrees of acceptance. Nonverbal bodily cues, such as facial expression, orientation, posture, and distance, reflect attitudes as surely as verbal behavior, according to recent experimental evidence. The less the distance a man maintains from another person, the more positive is his attitude towards him. Actual interpersonal spatial behavior has been mirrored in paper-and-pencil figure placement tasks.