Social and Emotional Touch Between Romantic Partners is Affectively More Pleasant Due to Finely Tuned Contact Interactions
Social and Emotional Touch Between Romantic Partners is Affectively More Pleasant Due to Finely Tuned Contact Interactions
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DOI：
10.1109/toh.2023.3293070
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发表时间：
2023-07-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Gerling，Gregory J.
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作者：
Xu，Shan;Xu，Chang;Gerling，Gregory J.
我们的日常观察告诉我们，陌生人和浪漫伴侣之间的社会情感和情感传递是不同的。这项工作探讨了关系状态如何影响我们的交付和感知的社会接触和情绪，通过评估接触互动的物理。在一项对人类参与者的研究中，陌生人和浪漫的触摸者向接受者的前臂传递情感信息。使用定制的3D跟踪系统测量身体接触互动。结果表明，陌生人和浪漫的接收者识别情感信息具有相似的准确性，但具有更高水平的效价和浪漫伴侣之间的唤醒。进一步的研究表明，触摸者会调整他们与浪漫伴侣之间的策略，而接触互动是更高水平的效价和唤醒的基础。例如，当抚摸时，浪漫的触摸者使用优先于C触觉传入的速度，并保持接触更长的持续时间和更大的接触面积。尽管如此，虽然我们表明，亲密关系的影响，触摸策略的部署，这种影响是相对微妙的手势之间的区别相比，情感信息，和个人偏好。
Our daily observations tell us that the delivery of social sentiments and emotions differs between strangers and romantic partners. This work explores how relationship status influences our delivery and perception of social touches and emotions, by evaluating the physics of contact interactions. In a study with human participants, strangers and romantically involved touchers delivered emotional messages to receivers’ forearms. Physical contact interactions were measured using a customized 3D tracking system. The results indicate that strangers and romantic receivers recognize emotional messages with similar accuracy, but with higher levels of valence and arousal between romantic partners. Further investigation into the contact interactions which underlie the higher levels of valence and arousal reveals that a toucher tunes their strategy with their romantic partner. For example, when stroking, romantic touchers use velocities preferential to C-tactile afferents, and maintain contact for longer durations with larger contact areas. Notwithstanding, while we show that relationship intimacy influences the deployment of touch strategies, such impact is relatively subtle compared to distinctions between gestures, emotional messages, and individual preferences.