Personal Space Is an Elaborate, Unconscious Dance
(WorldNews China)

President Trump has a signature handshake. It hit the world stage at the United Nations meeting last year when he grabbed Emmanuel Macron´s hand and appeared to aggressively pull the French president closer. Ever since, he´s shown a consistent tendency to loom into other people´s personal space, or pull them toward him. This article is adapted from Graziano´s new book. Everyone has a personal space, an instinctive protective zone. We´re always jostling to maintain our own space and to navigate around others´, and the honeycomb of abutting spaces forms the scaffold of our social world. Violating it as a means of social communication, a means of bullying, is common behavior. But we usually...