touch and feel - the sense of touch people are helpful when you touch it? This is the title of an article ran in the English "Psychologies" of February 2010, which caught my attention. In fact,
touches make helpful . Studies show that foreign people to take a leak on the upper arm willing to petition, give money or other help. But why is that?
Inniger body contact provides for the distribution of well-being and Hormone binding Oxyt
OCIN. The play in intimate contact between mother and child, or partners involved. To explain the phenomenon also helpfulness of the contact period would be too small to be held responsible for oxytocin. Are much more favorable contacts among strangers a subconscious signal to
affection and care. And whom you like, for which one does more. Very simple. This marked the end of the newspaper articles and my curiosity was piqued to learn more about the 5th Sense to research. According to Wikipedia
called the
touch "the ability of living beings to perceive touches. Can distinguish
"tactile and haptic touch sensations" . "Tactile
" are sensations that are perceived through the skin receptors, eg, pressure, vibration, temperature, pain. "Haptic
'perceptions are caused by integration of all skin senses and depth perception and allow the active sensing the size, texture, contours. Skin and hands are the instruments of touch.
The importance of touch for us humans, also show hundreds of
phrases . So we can metaphorically "understand things," us "approach to some keys" and are for "intangible". Ideal run things when they "go hand in hand". We have "touch" with other "contact points", can in words and deeds, or "left an impression." Others can also become "repulsive" or "too close to my body back."
touch can pleasant or u nangenehm be . The interpretation depends on:
situation, relationship and contact with the rituals and conventions . The classification by Richard Heslin shows the different aspects of everyday touches: A treatment manual development to the doctor is one example of the "functional professional touch"
a type 
severally "socially courteous touch" is shaking hands in greeting and hugging is "friendly". It is even more familiar in the last two categories: "Love and intimacy touches", including the kissing part. The maximum form of interpersonal relationship are "sexual touching", since they involve the whole body.
Interestingly, three of five categories of contact among
friendship and partnership - by far the most important external source of happiness. Without a doubt, touching a part of "healthy" human relations. I present I have just the question: Do we all
enough touches? To answer, I refer to my
Articles: marital happiness and fear of commitment ...
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