Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with
that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this …

Since their initial discovery in cats, low-threshold C-fiber mechanoreceptors have become a
central interest of scientists studying the affective aspects of touch. Their pursuit in humans …

Touch between people is an integral part of human life. Touch is used to convey information,
emotions, and other social cues. Still, everyday remote communication remains mainly …

A growing body of evidence from the behavioural and neural sciences indicates that social
touch has a vital role in human development and psychological well-being. Despite some …

Receiving touch is of critical importance, as many studies have shown that touch promotes
mental and physical well-being. We conducted a pre-registered (PROSPERO …

This study examined how touch role and culture shape affective touch experiences.
Germans (N= 130) and Chinese (N= 130) were surveyed once as toucher and once as …

Highlights•Perception is inherently multisensory, and tactile perception is no
exception.•Sensory-discriminative and affective touch influenced by other senses.•To date …

Touch plays an important role in the development of infants and children. In this review, we
highlight the neural conditioning of affective touch and the related physiological responses …

Highlights•Social touch has been pursued in a sender-signal-receiver framework.•This may
be inappropriate for capturing its significance.•We suggest 'nonverbal effecting'as an …

C-Tactile (CT) fibers are activated by slow, caress-like stimulations, and convey a specific
tactile processing of hedonic and interpersonal components, defined as affective touch …