31-07-2016 07:00 via theguardian.com

The hands-on power of touch

People touch each other differently in different cultures, but the benefits are universalImagine you’re sitting in your local café watching two people you don’t know. It’s likely that you could guess quite a lot about their relationship based on how, and how often, they touch. It might also tell you quite a lot about what culture you live in. In one study from the 1960s, couples in cafés in Puerto Rico were seen to touch each other an average of three times per mi
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