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Why Do People Obey Consent?

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We as individuals don’t really know the benefits of hugging a person. In other words, we hug people in our lives whether it’s a family member, relative, friend or someone you know, for a reason. That reason can be happiness, sadness, or just to comfort someone. However, due to a team of researchers we have found another reason to hug someone that is beneficial to both the person who is hugging someone and the person being hugged. But according to Carnegie Mellon University, hug-a-day can prevent a person visiting a doctor often. According to the article, researchers such as Robert E. Doherty and Sheldon Cohen researched for the benefits of hug’s trying to find out whether hugging someone is a form of social support, preventing individuals from getting stressed and sick. Researchers then began to experiment to get the information for the research being conducted. Since the researchers wanted to find more about social support hugging was being studied because many believe it is an action that indicates …show more content…

In the article, the author provides and image of a mother and daughter hugging showing another relationship that can benefit as it keep severe illness symptoms away. In addition, the research exhibited how the infected participants that are hugging someone causes the chances of a person who can have severe illness to decrease since hugging someone often and having social support while experiencing or not experiencing conflicts can reduce sickness. According to the researcher Cohen, hugging someone can be a behavioral indictor that helps reduce stress for someone by giving them support system and even help prevent of future infections. However, people who have ongoing conflicts are more likely to have difficulty for fighting off cold viruses because the amount of stress level increases in an individual causing the social support to

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