… to examine whether social touch involves similar activations … neural underpinnings of the
effects of social touch on pain, we … Importantly, during social touch we found striking shared …

… We conclude that formulating a model of comforting touch offers a mechanistic framework
for understanding the effects of touch as well as other social interactions involving social …

… social means of stress regulation. Social touch may thus serve as part of a system for regulation
of … to acute stressors, “extended” to include the physiological effects of social interactions. …

… of affiliative touch has been largely overlooked in studies of comforting behavior thus … effects
resulting specifically from social touch will begin to deepen our understanding of comforting…

… have demonstrated the comforting effects of touch before and … how often those comforting
forms of touch occur in naturalistic … Although touch is thought to be vital to social interactions, at …

… effects, social touch has arisen interest also in the research field of prejudice since social
touch … pain or psychological distress, supporting comforting functions of touch. Finally, attention …

… on social touch followed by CT touch and massage therapy. … The literature on social touch
has focused on responses to touch … 1 for social touch effects and authors). Recent studies on …

… The comforting aspect of physical touch is confirmed by the increased … social orientation.
Physical and emotional comfort was generally believed to be the major effects of physical touch …

… does my partner rubbing my back sometimes feel comforting and other times feel maddening?”
… Interestingly, in this study, the effect of social touch on fear was specific to individuals with …

… that social touch can buffer stress and has calming effects [eg… and mechanisms of this
positive effect are not sufficiently … who had received comforting touch reported that they would …