Two studies investigated the cognitive consequences of personal space invasions on a city sidewalk. Invaded pedestrians crossed a street faster, judged the invader more negatively, rated the invader's behavior as less appropriate, attributed specific intentions, and in one study but not the other, rated their own feelings less positively than did non-invaded pedestrians.
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Smith et al. (1978) studied this question.
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