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Physical Contact and Loneliness: Being Touched Reduces Perceptions of Loneliness

OBJECTIVE: This article addresses the connection between loneliness and physical contact. Evolutionary and psychological research has shown that touch is an important part of bond-building and emotion communication; loneliness is intimately related to these elements as well. In this paper, we ask wh...

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Autores principales: Heatley Tejada, A., Dunbar, R. I. M., Montero, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7250541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-020-00138-0