Physical Aspects Of Physical Contact

Touch - Touch is the most used non-verbal communication. An example is when we shake hands at a first meeting. The way we handle individuals can be a positive way of communicating. We communicate when we lift an individual’s leg or move them.

It has been shown that babies who are held, coddled, and kissed develop a healthier emotional life than those who are left alone for long periods of time. Hugging induces oxytocin, the “bonding hormone,” that’s renowned for reducing stress, lowering cortisol levels and increasing a sense of trust and security (Suval, 2014). Touch can even have economic effects, promoting trust and generosity. When psychologist Robert Kurzban had participants play the “prisoner’s dilemma” game, in which they could choose either to cooperate or compete with a partner for a limited amount of money, an experimenter gently touched some of the participants as they were starting to play the game with just a quick pat on the back. This made a big difference. Those who were touched were much more likely to cooperate and share with their partner (Kaltner, 2010). Human touch, hugging, hand holding, and cuddling can be beneficial health wise, physically, emotionally, and even

Contact magic occurs when physical contact is made with an object belonging to or associated with the subject of the spell. Long after the contact with the object, the effect is thought to remain. For instance, if an object belonging to the subject, such as a hair brush or a scarf, is obtained, then the owner can be influenced. This is usually thought to secure love or something that belongs to the subject.

One time me and my brother were on our phones talking to our friends and our mother was calling us, needless to say we didn't hear her so she came upstairs and snatched the phones right out of our hands and said, "They live right down the street, just go to their house." Technology has advanced so far that we rarely need to step out of our own house to talk to people and as cool as that seem it has become a problem. Although, technology has made great things possible like communicating with your loved ones across the globe and it has even progressed human evolution. However, its has taken a fundamental aspect of humanity from us. We no longer feel the need to communicate human to human. This is lack in human contact is in fact a problem

The human sense of touch is known as the somatic or somatosensory system. The skin is the biggest and most complex organ in the somatosensory system.The somatosensory system permits the human body to experience pressure, texture, temperature, and pain, and to see the position and development of the body's muscles and joints.The receptor cells in the skin can be separated into three useful classifications: mechanoreceptors that sense pressure and surface, thermoreceptors that sense temperature, and nociceptors that sense pain. Thermoreceptors distinguish changes in temperature utilizing two sorts of receptor cells: warm and cold. Thus, thermoreceptors on the skin detects the temperature signal using two specific receptors cell: warm and cold.

When we look at new born baby, most of the time when they explore the new world, they will use their hand try to reach the object that they are interested in. To remember how that object feel through touching. When we grow up, when we meet someone, the first thing we will do is to give out our hand to greet other with a handshake, in fact this simple action can also reveal our personality. When we do not like or trying to protect ourselves, our hand will become a fist, ready to punch to express dislike. In a relationship, we often see couples holding hands, which can also explaining as they are fear to lose each other, besides they are willing to hand their life to their opponent. When we are holing other hands, we feel secure and someone to

When amongst friends, however, they are very expressive and animated, use direct eye contact, and frequently use touch to communicate. Most interactions are very close due to smaller personal space requirements. For these reasons, touch by trusted caregivers is often appreciated.

Some of the senses that are vital during the growth of the child are: hearing, vision, smelling and tasting, ability to speak and feeling pain; they are the basic improvements in the child’s mental growth, they help the child in the perception of the general occurrences in the world around the child. After the child have developed the basic senses to the major aspects of life that is when they will be able to develop permanent images of objects even if they are not there at the moment. The sensorimotor nerves of a child develops as the child make primitive movements, these improves the reflex response of a child (Piaget, & Inhelder, 2010).

In some cultures touching and hugging is a big part of their lives. How you touch someone says a lot about you. The way you touch someone says a lot if you touch them loving and comforting it shows you are kind. If you touch them too hard and hurt them, people are going to be afraid to touch you when they see you. In the United States we always shake hands with people when see them or meet someone a new person. That says you are friendly but not always in a good way. We shake hands with a lot of people and sometimes we don’t really want to see that person any more.

Yes, that is another one of our senses. What body part do we use in order to see?

Heidt (1981) found TT of benefit to cardiovascular patient. Heidt studied therapeutic touch (TT) using 30 patients as the subjects in three groups. Group A received TT, group B casual TT and group C none. Results showed a significant reduction in anxiety in group

Touch is extremely important in human's lives, it teaches you how to be comfortable with yourself as well as others and to learn that touch can help you develop who you are in life. If someone

(Attention) Did you know that there are over 5,000,000 touch receptors in our skin and 3,000 of them are in the finger tips. Imagine all the endorphins being released by the slightest touch of another person.

Although imagined contact appears beneficial in reducing intergroup anxiety, previous research often excludes alternative explanations for imagined contact effects, such as generalised positive effects. This proposes imagined contact effects is not solely about imagining contact, but a result of positive feelings associated to the task. Stathi and Crisp (2008) found a positive tone of voice was vital for imagined contact to have positive effects. West, Holmes and Hewstone (2011) continued this, examining how imagined contact changes attitudes towards negatively stereotyped schizophrenia patients. Participants who were asked to solely imagine contact revealed increased intergroup anxiety. Whereas participants who imagined a positive encounter

This essay discusses the importance of our touch receptors and a component of human exchange; when for once we give our trust to the person that is escorting us through the dark room and that individual becomes our eyes