Keeping Your Distance

1. Conditions that Evoke Keeping Your Distance

1.1. Consequences of the Conditions

1.2. Reactions and Strategies for Keeping Your Distance

1.2.1. Physical Distancing

1.2.2. Symbolic Distancing

1.2.2.1. Signaling

1.2.3. Using Heuristics and Biases

1.2.4. Using Psychological Defense Strategies

1.2.5. Using Collective Strategies

1.2.6. Distancing by Proxy

1.3. Moderating the Keeping Your Distance Response

1.3.1. Applying an Algorithm

1.3.2. The Coefficient of Keeping Your Distance

1.3.2.1. Mitigating the Keeping Your Distance Response

1.4. Outcomes of Keeping Your Distance Responses

1.4.1. Positive Intended Consequences

1.4.2. Achieving Optimal Distance

1.4.3. Deferring the Keeping Your Distance Response

1.4.4. Overriding the Keeping Your Distance response

2. Dimensions of Keeping Your Distance

2.1. Distancing for Physical safety

2.2. Distancing for Autonomy

2.3. Distancing for Energy Conservation

2.4. Distancing for Emotional control