Hands Touching Hands: Affective and Evaluative Effects of an Interpersonal Touch
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Hands touching hands: affective and evaluative effects of an interpersonal touch.
A 2 (touch-no touch) x 2 (sex of confederate) x 2 [sex of subject) between subjects design tested the affective and evaluative consequences of receiving an interpersonal touch in a Professional/Functional situation. It was found that the affective and evaluative response to touch was uniformly positive for females, who felt affectively more positive and evaluated the toucher and the environment...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sociometry
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0038-0431
DOI: 10.2307/3033506