Where would you like to touch .. and who accept touch and why?

Althoiq in blue are the areas which deprives the person on the other touched .allonen blue and red define men and women, respectively.

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What are the places that accept us to touch others, whether the other spouse or the mother or father, a brother or a friend or a stranger?

After a series of experiments to determine where and from whom people accept that others touch them, the researchers at Aalto University in Finland and the University of Oxford in Britain some amazing results, and some clear results recently published in the medical journal "PNAS" and we offer to you now from a position of ifarasha.

Perhaps not too surprising that women are more receptive to touch than men, and that men do not mind that unlike Telmushm woman that another man touch them. But men more comfortable to touch strangers to them than women, and women are allowed to touch the parts of the body more than men.

Researchers presented to the 1368 participants in the search silhouette images of front and rear of the human body, with the names of the members of the social network, such as family, friends, acquaintances and strangers. Coloring and asked them to areas of the body that allows everyone in their social network to touch them.

The researchers wrote: "allowed to touch the life partner anywhere in the body, and the knowledge and the nearest relatives were allowed to touch the head and upper torso, while confined allowed touched by strangers on the hands all areas."
Interestingly, it is the stronger emotional relationship with the person, the greater areas of the body that are allowed to touch them. But experts say that it is more complicated than that.


Said David Linden, a neuroscientist: "Response to touch depends on the context of the situation. The same touch may feel different depending on the context of the situation, because responsible for Touch areas of the brain also calculated answers to questions such as:" Am I under threat? What are the emotional my case? ".

It is also worth mentioning that the participants were from five European countries: Finland, France, Italy, Russia and the United Kingdom, therefore Linden added that the search results are limited to "countries and cultures that allow a certain degree of social touch."


He added: "If you conducted the study with ultra-Orthodox Jews or Muslim militants, or other similar groups in the world, they will not benefit at all."