Human Territoriality

Human Territoriality

Territoriality

Territoriality. And I don't know if you knew that this was non-verbal or not, but it is. And I don't know if you realize that you do it or not, but I guarantee you do. What territorality is, is our space. Not in the sense like proximates, but this is my desk, this is my chair, this is my phone, this is my cup of coffee, leave it alone. This is how we establish, who we are. This is us, this represents us. It happens in classrooms, it happens in offices, it happens in personal relationships. When I'm teaching, this topic in my college classroom, what I do, what I find very interesting, is very early on in the semester, students tend to gravitate to a specific seat. They may want to sit in the front, they may want to sit in the back. But whatever it is, very early on they establish, that that's where they're going to sit. That is where they feel comfortable. And that's what this is all about. Then one day, I'll pull three students out in the hall and I'll tell them, the next time you come to class you're going to sit in a different, somebody's chair. And to see the students come in and blow up, because someone is in their space, it happens every time. So your territorality, is the way in which you communicate who you are and your comfort zone and your area. We don't like it when people start messing with our stuff, and so that can be a very, it can be a very negative thing. But it is also simply just very representational of who you are and your rituals for existence. Your ritual for non-verbal, your non-verbal environment...