For a long time, the cultural distinction between Western and Eastern cultures has been the subject of public debate and academic study. Western cultures have usually been thought of as those of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, the … Continue reading
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Cultural Proxemics and the Immediacy of Interpersonal Communication
Humans are territorial species, even though their notions of territorial space and proxemics are different from many other animals and vary between hunter-gatherer and agricultural societies. Humans, as social animals, tend to form a sense of in-groups and out-groups, as … Continue reading
What Is Closeness in a Relationship? It Is Culturally Diverse.
Scholars and laypeople frequently refer to psychological closeness in interpersonal relationships as “intimacy.” It might be either physical or emotional proximity, or their combination. It can be bodily, sexual, physical, emotional, or intellectual. The understanding of intimacy is also culturally … Continue reading
The Culturally High Emotional Expressiveness of Love
The studies presented in this article show that high levels of emotional expressiveness have become culturally normative forms of self-expression in modern societies. Multiple studies throughout the decades have reported numerous cross-cultural findings on how physical types of appearance, such … Continue reading