“To touch is to give life” (Michelangelo) If you’ve - TopicsExpress



          

“To touch is to give life” (Michelangelo) If you’ve attended my classes you will appreciate my perspective that touch is a powerful communicator of emotion. Sandy Fritz said “touch is more emotionally powerful than speech.” (Fritz, 2013) We postulated how much of our thought/emotion can be conveyed when giving (or receiving) a massage, and how much is conveyed when patting a friend on the back. Imagine conducting research to determine this fact. Place a barrier between two people in a room, and ask one to put their arm through the barrier to the person on the other side. Here they receive a one second touch on the arm, and are asked to guess the emotion the other was trying to convey. Psychology professor Dacher Keltner did just that, and here are his results. https://youtube/watch?v=GW5p8xOVwRo#t=28
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:25:30 +0000

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