Personal Space

  • NewsYahoo Life

    Steve Harvey Fires Off Strict Email to Staff: 'I Hate Being Ambushed'

    Steve Harvey sent a strongly worded note to his staff asking for personal space. Twitter is exploding after a letter Steve Harvey reportedly issued to the staff on his namesake talk show surfaced. On Wednesday, Robert Feder, a Chicago-based journalist, shared a letter he obtained from a member of Harvey’s staff.

  • NewsKorin Miller

    Where We Do — And Don’t — Feel Comfortable Being Touched

    The study, which was published in the journal PNAS, asked more than 1,300 men and women from five countries (the U.K. Finland, France, Russia, and Italy) to color in areas of the body that they would allow a partner, stranger, various family members, or a friend to touch.   Researchers used the answers to create body maps that showed how touchable certain areas are for people, depending on their relationships. Surprisingly, there wasn’t a lot of variation across cultures.  But both men and wome