People don’t like anything (or anyone) moving toward them
通过访谈博士生闫平图,揭示人们普遍对靠近自己的声音、图像或他人产生负面情绪,即使对方是亲近的人,这种空间侵犯感也会与温暖感交织。
The article presents an interview with doctoral student Yanping Tu about experiments she collaborated on that found people have greater negative feelings about sounds, images, and other people they perceive as approaching them. She says the same phenomenon exists to some degree even when the person approaching is a loved one. When a speaker approaches a group of listeners, she observes, feelings of warmth and friendliness can be intermingled with a sense one's space is being violated. She says public speakers might be better served by beginning a talk close to an audience and staying put