Differential Reaction to Touch by Men and Women
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 55 (3_suppl) , 1291-1294
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1982.55.3f.1291
Abstract
An experimenter placed biofeedback electrodes on seven different locations of each subject's body. The electrodes were held in place by the experimenter for 2 min. (at each location) after which the subject rated his or her degree of comfort-relaxation. A three-factor design was employed in which the variables were touch type (hand top, forearm top and bottom, upper-arm top and bottom, shoulder, back), sex of subject, and sex of experimenter. It was assumed that males would react more adversely to same-sex touch than would females when the type of touch was typical of female-female interactions (hand or arm touch) but not when the touch was typical of male-male interactions (shoulder or back touch). Results were consistent with expectations.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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