The Interacting Effects of Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio on Comfort Distance: A Virtual Reality Study

IF 1.2 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology Pub Date : 2023-04-14 DOI:10.1007/s40750-023-00216-z

Farid Pazhoohi, Sumaiya Binte Hassan, Alan Kingstone

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Abstract

Objectives

Previous studies have shown that body size and height affect one’s perceived optimal distance during social interactions. This current study is built up on the previous research that found a relationship between men’s height and comfort distance but failed to find any effect of men’s shoulder-hip ratio (SHR) on one’s comfort distance. The current study investigated the combined effect of SHR and height to eliminate methodological issues that prevented from establishing an effect of SHR in the previous study.

Methods

In this study, a total of 49 participants (both men and women) reported their comfort distance in relation to 63 male avatars that differed in height from 150 to 190 cm (9 values) and in SHR from 1 to 1.3 ratio (7 values).

Results and Conclusion

The result of this study showed that both genders had an increment of their comfort distance as the height of the avatar increased. The effect of SHR on comfort distance was only evident with extreme SHR measurements; demonstrating that height is a better indicator of establishing comfort distance during interactions.

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男性身高和肩臀比对舒适距离的交互影响:一项虚拟现实研究

目的先前的研究表明，在社交互动中，体型和身高会影响一个人的最佳距离。目前的这项研究建立在先前的研究基础上，该研究发现了男性身高与舒适距离之间的关系，但没有发现男性肩臀比（SHR）对舒适距离的任何影响。目前的研究调查了SHR和身高的综合效应，以消除在先前研究中阻碍建立SHR效应的方法学问题。方法在本研究中，共有49名参与者（包括男性和女性）报告了他们与63个身高在150至190厘米之间（9个值）和SHR在1至1.3之间（7个值）的男性化身的舒适距离。SHR对舒适距离的影响只有在极端的SHR测量中才明显；表明身高是在互动过程中建立舒适距离的更好指标。

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Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology PSYCHOLOGY, BIOLOGICAL-

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期刊介绍： Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology is an international interdisciplinary scientific journal that publishes theoretical and empirical studies of any aspects of adaptive human behavior (e.g. cooperation, affiliation, and bonding, competition and aggression, sex and relationships, parenting, decision-making), with emphasis on studies that also address the biological (e.g. neural, endocrine, immune, cardiovascular, genetic) mechanisms controlling behavior.