A scientifical Swedish attempt to get a mental grasp on hugging — that’s the central thing in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams — with dramatic readings by Harvard chemist Daniel Rosenberg — tells about: Hugging and what it means, maybe — “Meanings of hugging: From greeting behavior to touching implications,” […]
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New Insights on Hugs
A further advance in the long, difficult attempt to begin understanding what hugging is and what it might mean: “Meanings of hugging: From greeting behavior to touching implications,” Lena M. Forsell and Jan A. Åström, Comprehensive Psychology, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2012. The authors, in Stockholm and Linköping, Sweden, explain: “The aim and focus of this article […]