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The article discusses that unsolicited neighbors tend not to protect a marked territory through several studies. In the first study, the influence of a marker in eliciting a defense of a space by a neighbor when this protection was specifically requested, was examined. A confederate occupied a seat near a student in a university library and after a brief period asked the student to save his place. In one condition the confederate left behind a personal marker (three personal paperbacks), or in the other condition he left nothing. The proportion was unexpectedly identical in both conditions, but it was found that around 57%, of the subjects in the no-marker condition placed their own personal markers e.g., notebook in the space they had been asked to save. In a second study, that personal markers are more effective than impersonal markers, was examined. Four different pubs were used. Two adjacent tables were selected for each trial. At random, a personal marker (sports jacket) was placed at one table and an impersonal marker (a half empty glass of draft beer) at the other. Unexpectedly, in each of 30 trials except one, the table with the personal marker was occupied before the table with the impersonal marker. |
