Effects of Interpersonal Touch, Degree of Justification, and Sex of Participant on Compliance With a Request

1997 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice K. Bohm ◽  
Bryan Hendricks
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Touch ◽  
Degree Of Justification

Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722098837
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Sorokowska ◽  
Supreet Saluja ◽  
Piotr Sorokowski ◽  
Tomasz Frąckowiak ◽  
Maciej Karwowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Close Relationships ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Interpersonal Distance ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Affective Touch ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Interpersonal Touch ◽  
Regional Temperature

Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual-level factors (sex, age, parasitic history, conservatism, religiosity, and preferred interpersonal distance) and cultural-level factors (regional temperature, parasite stress, regional conservatism, collectivism, and religiosity) in predicting these affective-touching behaviors. Our results indicate that affective touch was most prevalent in relationships with partners and children, and its diversity was relatively higher in warmer, less conservative, and religious countries, and among younger, female, and liberal people. This research allows for a broad and integrated view of the bases of cross-cultural variability in affective touch.

Evaluation of Interpersonal Touch by the Sighted and the Blind

1982 ◽  
Vol 116 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Florez ◽  
Morton Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Touch

Comfort with Interpersonal Touch Scale

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Webb ◽  
Joann Peck
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Touch

The Value of Fallible Knowledge

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-80
Author(s):  
Michael Hannon
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Value ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Value Of Knowledge ◽  
Plausible Account ◽  
Degree Of Justification ◽  
Threshold Problem

This chapter attempts to solve the “threshold problem”: how to provide a plausible account of what fixes the threshold (level, degree) of justification (evidence, probability, warrant, supporting ground) for knowledge in a nonarbitrary way that also makes sense of the perceived value of knowledge. Epistemologists have been largely silent about how strong the justificatory component of fallible knowledge must be. Indeed, nothing like a precise specification of this level of justification has ever been seriously suggested, let alone more widely endorsed. This chapter attempts to answer this challenge. By appealing to the hypothesis that the concept of knowledge is used to identify reliable informants, we can determine the level of justification required for fallible knowledge. Further, we may explain why this level of justification has the significance that makes knowledge valuable. This chapter also explores the alleged payoffs of rejecting fallibilism and shows these benefits to be illusory.

scholarly journals Touch and social support influence interpersonal synchrony and pain

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 1064-1075 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne C Reddan ◽  
Hannah Young ◽  
Julia Falkner ◽  
Marina López-Solà ◽  
Tor D Wager
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Interpersonal Touch ◽  
Interpersonal Synchrony ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Pain Ratings ◽  
Lower Pain ◽  
Support Conditions

Abstract Interpersonal touch and social support can influence physical health, mental well-being and pain. However, the mechanisms by which supportive touch promotes analgesia are not well understood. In Study 1, we tested how three kinds of social support from a romantic partner (passive presence, gentle stroking and handholding) affect pain ratings and skin conductance responses (SCRs). Overall, support reduced pain ratings in women, but not men, relative to baseline. Support decreased pain-related SCRs in both women and men. Though there were no significant differences across the three support conditions, effects were largest during handholding. Handholding also reduced SCRs in the supportive partner. Additionally, synchronicity in couples’ SCR was correlated with reductions in self-reported pain, and individual differences in synchrony were correlated with the partner’s trait empathy. In Study 2, we re-analyzed an existing dataset to explore fMRI activity related to individual differences in handholding analgesia effects in women. Increased activity in a distributed set of brain regions, including valuation-encoding frontostriatal areas, was correlated with lower pain ratings. These results may suggest that social support can reduce pain by changing the value of nociceptive signals. This reduction may be moderated by interpersonal synchrony and relationship dynamics.

Interpersonal Neural Synchronization during Interpersonal Touch Underlies Affiliative Pair Bonding between Romantic Couples

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhang Long ◽  
Lifen Zheng ◽  
Hui Zhao ◽  
Siyuan Zhou ◽  
Yu Zhai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Near Infrared ◽  
Vocal Communication ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Pair Bonding ◽  
Romantic Couples ◽  
Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy ◽  
Neural Synchronization ◽  
Interpersonal Touch ◽  
Pair Bonds ◽  
Opposite Sex

Abstract Interpersonal touch plays a key role in creating and maintaining affiliative pair bonds in romantic love. However, the neurocognitive mechanism of interpersonal touch in affiliative pair bonding remains unclear. Here, we hypothesized that interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) during interpersonal touch underlies affiliative pair bonding between romantic couples. To test this hypothesis, INS between heterosexual romantic couples and between opposite-sex friends was measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy-based hyperscanning, while the pairs of participants touched or vocally communicated with each other. The results showed significantly greater INS between the mentalizing and sensorimotor neural systems of two members of a pair during interpersonal touch than during vocal communication between romantic couples but not between friends. Moreover, touch-induced INS was significantly correlated with the self-reported strength of romantic love. Finally, the results also showed that men’s empathy positively modulated the association between touch-induced INS increase and the strength of romantic love. These findings support the idea that INS during interpersonal touch underlies affiliative pair bonding between romantic couples and suggest that empathy plays a modulatory role in the neurocognitive mechanism of interpersonal touch in affiliative pair bonding.

scholarly journals Interpersonal touch interventions for patients in intensive care: A design‐oriented realist review

Nursing Open ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sansha J. Harris ◽  
Elizabeth D. E. Papathanassoglou ◽  
Melanie Gee ◽  
Susan M. Hampshaw ◽  
Lenita Lindgren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Realist Review ◽  
Interpersonal Touch

The use of interpersonal touch in securing compliance

1980 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank N. Willis ◽  
Helen K. Hamm
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Touch
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