Although the manifestation of trauma in the body is a phenomenon well-endorsed by
clinicians and traumatized individuals, the neurobiological underpinnings of this�…

Social touch is increasingly utilized in a variety of psychological interventions, ranging from
parent-child interventions to psychotherapeutic treatments. Less attention has been paid�…

Caregiver touch plays a vital role in infants' growth and development, but its role as a
communicative signal in human parent-infant interactions is surprisingly poorly understood�…

Sense of Agency, the phenomenology associated with causing one's own actions and
corresponding effects, is a cornerstone of human experience. Social Agency can be defined�…

Receiving touch is of critical importance, as many studies have shown that touch promotes
mental and physical well-being. We conducted a pre-registered (PROSPERO�…

Social touch—the affiliative skin-to-skin contact between individuals—can rapidly evoke
emotions of comfort, pleasure, or calm, and is essential for mental and physical well-being�…

Comforting touch involves contact distress-alleviating behaviors of an observer towards the
suffering of a target. A growing number of studies have investigated the effects of touch on�…

Interpersonal touch plays a key role in creating and maintaining affiliative pair bonds in
romantic love. However, the neurocognitive mechanism of interpersonal touch in affiliative�…

Individuals are experiencing unprecedented personal challenges as a result of the novel
COVID-19 virus. Stay at home orders and social distancing guidelines were in place, which�…

Previous studies on dual-brain social interaction have shown different patterns of
interpersonal neural synchronization (INS) between conflictual and supportive interactions�…