Why touch is our most misunderstood sense, with Prof Michael Banissy
Instant Genius
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The Different Types of Affective Touch
There are differences between world regions in terms of the ways in which they touch. People in Puerto Rico would touch substantially as well over a hundred times an hour, whereas in the UK and London, it was zero times an hour. We tend to be more happy with people we have close to emotional bonds with. Unlike the diversity of affective touch that we experienced, that tends to not necessarily be connected to a particular country.
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