According to the article, “Too Close for Comfort,” personal space can be defined as, “an invisible boundary surrounding each individual, a territory into which others may trespass”. Numerous studies have been conducted measuring gender differences in dyadic intervention. Past results have shown that females do not require as much personal space in conversation than males. James Baxter also conducted a study involving interpersonal spacing in natural settings. Baxter observed similar gender differences, however he also …showed first 75 words of 632 total…

…showed last 75 words of 632 total…we compared the female/female dyad to the male/female dyad we saw no significant difference at a measurement of .256. Based on the results of this experiment we can see that women engage in closer dyadic conversation than men. When looking at the results of the female to female dyad we can see that the distance was much smaller than that of both the male to male as well as the male to female dyad.