Territoriality (nonverbal communication)

Driving a large truck like the Ford F-450 might be communicating that a value of owning a lot of space on the highway.

The term stimulated Edward T. Hall to create the word proxemics, which refers to how people use space, but not necessarily how people communicate ownership (Beebe, Beebe & Redmond 2008, p. 209).

National pride, common religious practices, and politics all play a role in a state's territoriality.

[4] Following Ruggie, a number of works have sought to explain how territoriality became the dominant principle of European international relations and/or question his broadly Westphalian chronology of the modern territorial order.

With this in mind, we can understand that men typically have a stronger sense of ownership and are more likely to challenge others' boundaries.

People respond to invasion of territory in different ways depending on what their comfort norms are.