Cross-cultural similarity in relationship-specific social touching

• Main Authors: Suvilehto, Juulia T., Nummenmaa, Lauri, Harada, Tokiko, Dunbar, Robin I. M., Hari, Riitta, Turner, Robert, Sadato, Norihiro, Kitada, Ryo
• 其他作者: School of Social Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2019
• 主題: Cultural Difference; Social Touch; Social sciences::Communication
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83249; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49749

Many species use touching for reinforcing social structures, and particularly, non-human primates use social grooming for managing their social networks. However, it is still unclear how social touch contributes to the maintenance and reinforcement of human social networks. Human studies in Western...