Perceived psychological closeness

Details:

The definitions under this heading explicitly involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; the source of the stimuli in the experience is only external (outside the body); and there is an inaccurate perceptioon that technology is not involved in the experience when it is; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to social entitites (human, electronic and otherwise), specifically perceptions of psychological closeness with others.

Sample defintion(s):

Palmer (1995) in Biocca, Harms, & Burgoon (2003):
"Although these terms (immediacy, intimacy and involvement) are typically used to describe behaviors, it is not difficult to imagine that they also describe a cognitive state in which individuals feel more or less directly ‘present’ in the interaction and in the process by which relationships are being created" (p. 284)