Touch as a Stress Buffer? Gender Differences in Subjective and Physiological Responses to Partner and Stranger Touch.
Interpersonal touch buffers against stress under challenging conditions, but this effect depends on familiarity. People benefit from receiving touch from their romantic partners, but the results are less consistent in the context of receiving touch from an opposite-gender stranger. We propose that t...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 48; no. 3; pp. 345 - 365 |
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