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if a location becomes too crowded, then we adjust our reactions and allow our personal space to become smaller. In an elevator, a rush hour train, or at a crowded exit, we give up altogether and allow body-to-body contact, but when we give up our personal space in this way, we use certain special techniques, among them imagining these other bodies as 'non-persons'. We try hard to avoid eye contact, looking up at the ceiling or down at the floor, and we try not to face them if we can possibly