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Id http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001525
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D001525
Preferred Name

Behavioral Sciences
Definitions
The study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of POPULATION DENSITY on BEHAVIOR, COMMUNICATION, and SOCIAL INTERACTION. Proxemics is a subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch), KINESICS (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time). Disciplines concerned with the study of human and animal behavior.
Synonyms
Science, Behavioral
Behavioral Science
Proxemic
Sciences, Behavioral
Proxemics
Type http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class

All Properties

definition

The study of the spatial requirements of humans and animals and the effects of POPULATION DENSITY on BEHAVIOR, COMMUNICATION, and SOCIAL INTERACTION. Proxemics is a subcategory of the study of nonverbal communication along with haptics (touch), KINESICS (body movement), vocalics (paralanguage), and chronemics (structure of time).

Disciplines concerned with the study of human and animal behavior.
altLabel
Science, Behavioral
Behavioral Science
Proxemic
Sciences, Behavioral
Proxemics
prefLabel
Behavioral Sciences
Machine permutation
1969; PROXEMICS was heading 1975-96 (see under SPATIAL BEHAVIOR 1975-90 and 1997-2014)
HN
1969; PROXEMICS was heading 1975-96 (see under SPATIAL BEHAVIOR 1975-90 and 1997-2014)
type
tui
T055
T090
TERMUI
T038415
T004434
TH
NLM (1997)
NLM (1969)
MMR
20140616
notation
D001525
Semantic type UMLS property
Inverse of AQ
DX
19690101
cui
C0004940
C0033759
DC
1
MN
F04.096
AN
use for the specialty only
AQL
CL EC ED ES HI IS LJ MT OG SN ST TD
MDA
19990101
subClassOf
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