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unusual facts about social interaction



Large-group awareness training

Groups and trainings such as Lifespring, Erhard Seminars Training, IMPACT Trainings, The Forum, Newfield Consulting, Seres Naturales, Landmark Education and Benchmark claimed to have worked to improve people's overall level of satisfaction and interpersonal relations through group interaction.

Sociological illness

The term, social illness, implies that the cause of the illness is from social interaction with others and emphasizes that people don't live in isolation, but have complex social interactions with others that can cause cognitive, behavioral, or affective illness.


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Airport Seating

Robert Sommer studied the design of airport seating and concluded that the arrangement of chairs in rigid lines bolted to the floor was deliberately sociofugal — discouraging social interaction such as conversation and encouraging the sitters to go to commercial locations such as shops and cafes.

Alexander Haslam

Haslam is a recipient of the European Association of Social Psychology's Kurt Lewin medal and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research working on its Social Interaction, Identity and Well-Being program.

Ethnosymbolism

He emphasised the boundaries for human identity by adopting the social interaction model of Fredrik Barth and argues that 'groups tend to define themselves not by reference to their own characteristics but by exclusion, that is, by comparison to "strangers"'.

Mewat

Even after conversion to Islam they retained their Mahabharata culture by creating Gotras and Pals for marriages and social interaction.

Naomi Baron

She is also interested in language use in the computer age, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, cross-cultural research on mobile phones, Human multitasking behavior, and Facebook online social interaction usage by American college students.

Paley Park

Social interaction in the park was analyzed in the film "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" by William H. Whyte.

Sathyabama University

Nationally, the university has gained an unsavory reputation, along with other institutions established by Jeppiaar for repressing social interaction between students of different genders and for a series of draconian rules.