WPŁYW POZYTYWNYCH I NEGATYWNYCH EMOCJI NA DYSTANS INTERPERSONALNY, OCENĘ ORAZ POSTAWY

Emotions are associated with many areas of human life. They affect reception the reality, determine attitudes and judgment. The conducted study verified whether emotions (positive or negative) affect an interpersonal distance. 40 people took part in that study: 22 women and 18 men between the ages of 20 and 51 (M = 25 SD = 7.48). Analysis of the correlation between emotion and conversational distance showed a difference in the limit of statistical significance (t (38) =1.92; p = 0.06). It means that people who were induced by negative emotions could keep larger conversational distance (M1 = 64.7) than those who were induced by positive emotions (M2 = 54.2). In the case of positive emotions and minimal distance, the correlation analysis showed no statistically significant differences between the groups (U = 166.00; p = 0.36). There is also a link found between aroused emotions and emotions occurring while getting closer to each other, judgment of a neutral person and attitude towards her.