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A 2005 paper by Jessica Witt et al. found that judgments of this concept are affected by tool use, “but only when you intend to use” the tool. Different forms of this concept, including a “psychological” type, affect judgment similarly in Nira Liberman and Yaacov Trope’s construal-level theory. In face negotiation theory, Stella Ting-Toomey invoked a type of this property partly named for “power,” which is one of six indices in Geert Hofstede’s (“HAIR’t HOFF-stay-duh’s”) cultural dimensions theory. The author of The Hidden Dimension, Edward T. Hall, launched a field of study of this concept and divided it into four types, including public, personal, and intimate. Linguistic politeness often increases a figurative “interpersonal” type of, for 10 points, what property studied by proxemics, whose “social” type was the subject of public health directives in March 2020? ■END■
ANSWER: distance [or closeness; or proximity; or nearness; or separation; or how far away something is; or how far apart things are; or interpersonal distance; or psychological distance; or egocentric distance; or power distance; or mental distance; or distance in time; or distance perception; or perceived distance from oneself; accept social distancing; prompt on length; prompt on personal space; prompt on location; prompt on level; prompt on comfort zones; prompt on personal bubble; prompt on proxemics until read by asking “what is that the study of?”]
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