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Proxemics

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Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication, and social interaction. [1]

100 relations: Amygdala, Architectural psychology in Germany, Body culture studies, Chair, Character (arts), Chronemics, Civil inattention, Closeness, Code for Sustainable Homes, Cognitive valence theory, Communication, Conversation, Courtesy book, Critical distance (animals), Cultureme, Diogenes and Alexander, Distance, Dowisetrepla, Edward T. Hall, Emotional intimacy, Etiquette in Latin America, Etiquette in the Middle East, Expectancy violations theory, Flight zone, Flirting, Foreplay, George L. Trager, Gesture, Gesture recognition, Glossary of biology, Glossary of economics, Groping, Haptic communication, Heini Hediger, Hillary Clinton, Hug, Human video, Index of branches of science, Index of psychology articles, Intensive interaction, Intercultural communication, Intercultural competence, Intimate relationship, John B. Calhoun, Jonny Star, Judee K. Burgoon, Kinesics, Kota Bharu, Laban notation symbols, Limor Fried, ..., List of gestures, List of MeSH codes (F01), Louis Cozolino, Mahram, Man cave, Masking (personality), Microculture, Microsociology, Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull, Movement director, Naturism, NECA Project, Negotiation, Nonverbal communication, Nonverbal influence, Norman Fairclough, Oculesics, Outline of self, Paralanguage, Personal boundaries, Physical intimacy, Posture (psychology), Privacy regulation theory, Propinquity, Proxemic communication strategies, Proximity, Rudeness, S.M. (patient), Semantics, Small talk, Social cue, Social navigation, Social space, Society of the United States, Sociology of space, Space, Space (disambiguation), Spatial empathy, Stand-your-ground law, Surprise (emotion), Surroundings, Table sharing, Territoriality (nonverbal communication), The No Asshole Rule, The Raincoats (Seinfeld), Transculturation, United States Senate election in New York, 2000, United States Senate elections, 2000, Unsaid, Wes Burgess. Expand index (50 more) »

Amygdala

The amygdala (plural: amygdalae; also corpus amygdaloideum; Latin from Greek, ἀμυγδαλή, amygdalē, 'Almond', 'tonsil') is one of two almond-shaped groups of nuclei located deep and medially within the temporal lobes of the brain in complex vertebrates, including humans.

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Architectural psychology in Germany

Architectural and environmental psychology developed within the German-speaking world in the 1970s.

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Body culture studies

Body culture studies describe and compare bodily practice in the larger context of culture and society, i.e. in the tradition of anthropology, history and sociology.

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Chair

A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface supported by legs, commonly used to seat a single person.

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Character (arts)

A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).

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Chronemics

Chronemics is the study of the role of time in communication.

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Civil inattention

Civil inattention is the process whereby strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another, without imposing on each other – a recognition of the claims of others to a public space, and of their own personal boundaries.

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Closeness

Closeness may refer to.

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Code for Sustainable Homes

The Code for Sustainable Homes is an environmental assessment method for rating and certifying the performance of new homes in United Kingdom.

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Cognitive valence theory

Cognitive valence theory (CVT) is a theoretical framework that describes and explains the process of intimacy exchange within a dyad relationship.

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Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

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Conversation

Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people.

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Courtesy book

A courtesy book or book of manners was a book dealing with issues of etiquette, behaviour and morals, with a particular focus on the life at princely courts.

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Critical distance (animals)

Critical distance for an animal is the distance a human or an aggressor animal has to approach in order to trigger a defensive attack of the first animal.

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Cultureme

A cultureme is any portion of cultural behavior apprehended in signs of symbolic value that can be broken down into smaller units or amalgamated into larger ones.

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Diogenes and Alexander

The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great is one of the most well-discussed anecdotes from philosophical history.

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Distance

Distance is a numerical measurement of how far apart objects are.

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Dowisetrepla

"Dowisetrepla" is the seventh episode in the third season of the television series How I Met Your Mother and 51st overall.

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Edward T. Hall

Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher.

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Emotional intimacy

Emotional intimacy is an aspect of interpersonal relationships that varies in intensity from one relationship to another and varies from one time to another, much like physical intimacy.

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Etiquette in Latin America

Etiquette in Latin America varies by country and by region within a given country.

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Etiquette in the Middle East

Many matters of etiquette in the Middle East are connected to Islam as it is written in the Qur'an and how it has been traditionally understood and practiced throughout the centuries.

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Expectancy violations theory

Expectancy violations theory (EVT) is a theory of communication that analyzes how individuals respond to unanticipated violations of social norms and expectations.

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Flight zone

The flight zone of an animal is the area surrounding an animal that if encroached upon by a potential predator or threat, including humans, will cause alarm and escape behavior.

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Flirting

Flirting or coquetry is a social and sexual behavior involving verbal or written communication, as well as body language, by one person to another, either to suggest interest in a deeper relationship with the other person, or if done playfully, for amusement.

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Foreplay

In human sexual behavior, foreplay is a set of emotionally and physically intimate acts between two or more people meant to create sexual arousal and desire for sexual activity.

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George L. Trager

George Leonard Trager (March 22, 1906 – August 31, 1992) was an American linguist.

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Gesture

A gesture is a form of non-verbal communication or non-vocal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages, either in place of, or in conjunction with, speech.

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Gesture recognition

Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms.

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Glossary of biology

Most of the terms listed in Wikipedia glossaries are already defined and explained within Wikipedia itself.

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Glossary of economics

Most of the terms listed in Wikipedia glossaries are already defined and explained within Wikipedia itself.

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Groping

When used in a sexual context, groping is touching or fondling another person in an unwelcome sexual way using the hands.

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Haptic communication

Haptic communication is a branch of nonverbal communication that refers to the ways in which people and animals communicate and interact via the sense of touch.

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Heini Hediger

Heini Hediger (30 November 1908 – 29 August 1992) was a Swiss biologist noted for work in proxemics in animal behavior and is known as the "father of zoo biology".

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Hillary Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election.

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Hug

A hug is a form of endearment, universal in human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, or waist of one another and hold each other closely.

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Human video

A human video is a form of theater combining music, Modern Dance and drama, along with interpretive dance, American Sign Language, pantomime, and classic mime.

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Index of branches of science

Science (from Latin scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.

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Index of psychology articles

Psychology (from ψυχή psykhē "breath, spirit, soul"; and -λογία, -logia "study of") is an academic and applied discipline involving the scientific study of human mental functions and behavior.

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Intensive interaction

Intensive interaction is an approach for teaching communication skills to children and adults who have autism, severe learning difficulties and profound and multiple learning difficulties who are still at early stages of development.

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Intercultural communication

Intercultural communication is a discipline that studies communication across different cultures and social groups, or how culture affects communication.

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Intercultural competence

U.S. Military Academy Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies.

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Intimate relationship

An intimate relationship is an interpersonal relationship that involves physical or emotional intimacy.

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John B. Calhoun

John B. Calhoun (May 11, 1917 – September 7, 1995) was an American ethologist and behavioral researcher noted for his studies of population density and its effects on behavior.

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Jonny Star

Jonny Star (born December 26, 1964, in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German artist.

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Judee K. Burgoon

Judee K. Burgoon is a professor of Communication, Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona, where she serves as Director of Research for the Center for the Management of Information and Site Director for the NSF-sponsored Center for Identification Technology Research.

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Kinesics

Kinesics is the interpretation of body motion communication such as facial expressions and gestures, nonverbal behavior related to movement of any part of the body or the body as a whole.

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Kota Bharu

Kota Bharu (Jawi: كوت بهارو; Chinese: 哥打峇鲁; occasionally referred to as Kota Baharu) is a city in Malaysia that serves as the state capital and royal seat of Kelantan.

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Laban notation symbols

Laban Notation Symbols generally refers to the wide range of notation symbols (or signs) developing from the original work of Rudolf Laban and used in many different types of Laban Movement Study such as Labanotation and Laban Movement Analysis for graphically representing human body positions and movements.

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Limor Fried

Limor Fried is an American electrical engineer and owner of the electronics hobbyist company Adafruit Industries.

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List of gestures

Gestures are a form of nonverbal communication in which visible bodily actions are used to communicate important messages, either in place of speech or together and in parallel with spoken words.

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List of MeSH codes (F01)

The following is a list of the "F" codes for MeSH.

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Louis Cozolino

Louis John Cozolino (April 16, 1953) is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at Pepperdine University.

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Mahram

A mahram is an unmarriageable kin with whom marriage or sexual intercourse would be considered haram, illegal in Islam, or people from whom purdah is not obligatory or legal escorts of a woman during journey longer than a day and night, 24 hours.

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Man cave

A man cave or manspace, and less commonly a manland or mantuary is a male retreat or sanctuary in a home, such as a specially equipped garage, spare bedroom, media room, den, or basement.

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Masking (personality)

Masking is a process in which an individual changes or "masks" their natural personality to conform to social pressures, abuse, and/or harassment.

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Microculture

Microculture refers to the specialised subgroups, marked with their own languages, ethos and rule expectations, that permeate differentiated industrial societies.

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Microsociology

Microsociology is one of the main points (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face.

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Moscow Art Theatre production of The Seagull

The Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) production of The Seagull in 1898, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, was a crucial milestone for the fledgling theatre company that has been described as "one of the greatest events in the history of Russian theatre and one of the greatest new developments in the history of world drama." It was the first production in Moscow of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, though the play had been performed with only moderate success in St. Petersburg two years earlier.

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Movement director

A movement director arranges actors' movements in a variety of production settings that include theatre, television, film, opera and animation.

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Naturism

Naturism, or nudism, is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating, and defending personal and social nudity, most but not all of which takes place on private property.

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NECA Project

The NECA Project (Net Environment for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents) was a research project that focused on multimodal communication with animated agents in a virtual world.

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Negotiation

Negotiation comes from the Latin neg (no) and otsia (leisure) referring to businessmen who, unlike the patricians, had no leisure time in their industriousness; it held the meaning of business (le négoce in French) until the 17th century when it took on the diplomatic connotation as a dialogue between two or more people or parties intended to reach a beneficial outcome over one or more issues where a conflict exists with respect to at least one of these issues.

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Nonverbal communication

Nonverbal communication (NVC) between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless cues.

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Nonverbal influence

Nonverbal Influence is the art of effecting or inspiring change in others' behaviors and attitudes by way of tone of voice or body language and other cues like facial expression.

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Norman Fairclough

Norman Fairclough (born 1941) is an emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University.

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Oculesics

Oculesics, a subcategory of kinesics, is the study of eye movement, eye behavior, gaze, and eye-related nonverbal communication.

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Outline of self

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the self: Self – an individual person, from his or her own perspective.

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Paralanguage

Paralanguage is a component of meta-communication that may modify meaning, give nuanced meaning, or convey emotion, such as prosody, pitch, volume, intonation, etc.

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Personal boundaries

Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave towards them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.

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Physical intimacy

Physical intimacy is sensual proximity or touching.

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Posture (psychology)

In humans, posture can provide a significant amount of important information through nonverbal communication.

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Privacy regulation theory

Privacy regulation theory was developed by social psychologist Irwin Altman in 1975.

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Propinquity

In social psychology, propinquity (from Latin propinquitas, "nearness") is one of the main factors leading to interpersonal attraction.

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Proxemic communication strategies

Proxemic communication deals with the ways that what is communicated in face-to-face conversations may go beyond the overt information being imparted.

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Proximity

Proximity may refer to.

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Rudeness

Rudeness (also called effrontery) is a display of disrespect by not complying with the social norms or etiquette of a group or culture.

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S.M. (patient)

S.M., also sometimes referred to as SM-046, is a female patient first described in 1994 who has had exclusive and complete bilateral amygdala destruction since late childhood as a consequence of an extremely rare genetic condition known as Urbach–Wiethe disease.

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Semantics

Semantics (from σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant") is the linguistic and philosophical study of meaning, in language, programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.

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Small talk

Small talk is an informal type of discourse that does not cover any functional topics of conversation or any transactions that need to be addressed.

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Social cue

A social cue can either be a verbal or non-verbal hint, which can be positive or negative.

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Social navigation

Social navigation is a form of social computing introduced by Dourish and Chalmers in 1994.

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Social space

A social space is physical or virtual space such as a social center, online social media, or other gathering place where people gather and interact.

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Society of the United States

The society of the United States is based on Western culture, and has been developing since long before the United States became a country with its own unique social and cultural characteristics such as dialect, music, arts, social habits, cuisine, folklore, etc.

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Sociology of space

The sociology of space is a sub-discipline of sociology that mostly borrows from theories developed within the discipline of geography, including the sub fields of human geography, economic geography, and feminist geography.

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Space

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.

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Space (disambiguation)

Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.

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Spatial empathy

Spatial empathy is the awareness that an individual has to the proximity, activities, and comfort of people surrounding them.

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Stand-your-ground law

A stand-your-ground law (sometimes called "line in the sand" or "no duty to retreat" law) is a justification in a criminal case, whereby defendants can "stand their ground" and use force without retreating, in order to protect and defend themselves or others against threats or perceived threats.

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Surprise (emotion)

Surprise is a brief mental and physiological state, a startle response experienced by animals and humans as the result of an unexpected event.

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Surroundings

Surroundings are the area around a given physical or geographical point or place.

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Table sharing

Table sharing is the practice of seating multiple separate parties (individual customers or groups of customers) who may not know each other at a single restaurant table.

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Territoriality (nonverbal communication)

Territoriality is a term associated with nonverbal communication that refers to how people use space (territory) to communicate ownership or occupancy of areas and possessions.

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The No Asshole Rule

The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't is a book by Stanford professor Robert I. Sutton, based on a popular essay he wrote for the Harvard Business Review.

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The Raincoats (Seinfeld)

"The Raincoats" is a two-part episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld. It is the 82nd and 83rd episode.

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Transculturation

Transculturation is a term coined by Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz in 1947 to describe the phenomenon of merging and converging cultures.

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United States Senate election in New York, 2000

The United States Senate election in New York in 2000 was held on November 7, 2000.

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United States Senate elections, 2000

The United States Senate elections, 2000 was held on November 7, 2000.

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Unsaid

The term "unsaid" refers what is not explicitly stated, what is hidden and/or implied in the speech of an individual or a group of people.

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Wes Burgess

Joseph Wesley "Wes" Burgess is an American psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and author who has written books on animal behavior (ethology), nonverbal communication, and human consciousness.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxemics

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