Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

, volume 47 , issue 12 , pages 1705-1721

Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Agnieszka Sorokowska ¹

Supreet Saluja ²

Piotr Sorokowski ¹

Tomasz Frackowiak ¹

Maciej Karwowski ¹

Toivo Aavik ³

Grace Akello ⁴

Charlotte Alm ⁵

Naumana Amjad ⁶

Afifa Anjum ⁷

Kelly Asao ⁸

Chiemezie S. Atama ⁹

Derya Atamtürk Duyar ¹⁰

Richard Ayebare ¹¹

Carlota Batres ¹²

Mons Bendixen ¹³

Aicha Bensafia ¹⁴

Boris Bizumic ¹⁵

Mahmoud Boussena ¹⁴

David M. Buss ⁸

Marina Butovskaya ¹⁶

Seda Can ¹⁷

Katarzyna Cantarero ¹⁸

Antonin Carrier ¹⁹

Hakan Cetinkaya ²⁰

Dominika Chabin ¹

Daniel Conroy-Beam ²¹

Jorge Contreras Graduño ²²

Marco Antonio Correa Varella ²³

Rosa María Cueto ²⁴

Marcin Czub ¹

Daria Dronova ¹⁶

Seda Dural ¹⁷

Izzet Duyar ¹⁰

Berna Ertugrul ¹⁰

Agustín Espinosa ²⁴

Carla Sofia Esteves ²⁵

Farida Guemaz ²⁶

Mária Halamová ²⁷

Iskra Herak ¹⁹

Ivana Hromatko ²⁸

Chin Wai Hui ²⁹

Jas Laile Jaafar ³⁰

Feng Jiang ³¹

Konstantinos Kafetsios ³²

Tina Kavčič ³³

Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair ¹³

Nicolas O Kervyn ¹⁹

Imran Ahmed Khilji ³⁴

Nils C. Köbis ³⁵

Aleksandra Kostic ³⁶

András Láng ³⁷

Georgina R. Lennard ¹⁵

Ernesto León ²⁴

Torun Lindholm ⁵

Giulia Lopez ³⁸

Zoi Manesi ³⁹

Rocio Martinez ⁴⁰

Sarah L. McKerchar ¹⁵

Norbert Meskó ³⁷

Girishwar Misra ⁴¹

Conal Monaghan ¹⁵

Emanuel C. Mora ⁴²

Alba Moya-Garófano ⁴⁰

Bojan Musil ⁴³

Jean Carlos Natividade ⁴⁴

George Nizharadze ⁴⁵

Elisabeth Oberzaucher ⁴⁶

Anna Oleszkiewicz ^{1, 47}

Ike Ernest Onyishi ⁹

Baris Özener ¹⁰

Ariela F Pagani ³⁸

Vilmante Pakalniskiene ⁴⁸

Miriam Parise ³⁸

Farid Pazhoohi ⁴⁹

Marija Pejičić ³⁶

Annette Pisanski ⁴²

Katarzyna Pisanski ¹

Nejc Plohl ⁴³

Camelia Popa ⁵⁰

Pavol Prokop ^{51, 52}

Muhammad Rizwan ⁵³

Mario Sainz ⁵⁴

Svjetlana Salkičević ²⁸

Ruta Sargautyte ⁴⁸

Ivan Sarmány-Schuller ⁵⁵

Susanne Schmehl ⁴⁶

Anam Shahid ⁷

Rizwana Shaikh ⁵⁶

Shivantika Sharad ⁴¹

Razi Sultan Siddiqui ⁵⁷

Franco Simonetti ⁵⁸

Meri Tadinac ²⁸

Karina Ugalde González ⁵⁹

Olga Uhryn ⁶⁰

Christin-Melanie Vauclair ²⁵

Luis Diego Vega Araya ⁵⁹

Dwi Ajeng Widarini ⁶¹

Gyesook Yoo ⁶²

Zainab Fotowwat Zadeh ⁶³

Marta Zaťková ²⁷

Maja Zupančič ³³

Ilona Croy ⁶⁴

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THETA Uganda, Kampala, Uganda |

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Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia |

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Center for Social and Psychological Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia |

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pontificia universidad catolica de chile, santiago, Chile |

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Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2021-02-22

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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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ISSN: 01461672, 15527433

DOI: 10.1177/0146167220988373

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PubMed ID: 33615910

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Abstract

Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual-level factors (sex, age, parasitic history, conservatism, religiosity, and preferred interpersonal distance) and cultural-level factors (regional temperature, parasite stress, regional conservatism, collectivism, and religiosity) in predicting these affective-touching behaviors. Our results indicate that affective touch was most prevalent in relationships with partners and children, and its diversity was relatively higher in warmer, less conservative, and religious countries, and among younger, female, and liberal people. This research allows for a broad and integrated view of the bases of cross-cultural variability in affective touch.

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author = {Agnieszka Sorokowska and Supreet Saluja and Piotr Sorokowski and Tomasz Frackowiak and Maciej Karwowski and Toivo Aavik and Grace Akello and Charlotte Alm and Naumana Amjad and Afifa Anjum and Kelly Asao and Chiemezie S. Atama and Derya Atamtürk Duyar and Richard Ayebare and Carlota Batres and Mons Bendixen and Aicha Bensafia and Boris Bizumic and Mahmoud Boussena and David M. Buss and Marina Butovskaya and Seda Can and Katarzyna Cantarero and Antonin Carrier and Hakan Cetinkaya and Dominika Chabin and Daniel Conroy-Beam and Jorge Contreras Graduño and Marco Antonio Correa Varella and Rosa María Cueto and Marcin Czub and Daria Dronova and Seda Dural and Izzet Duyar and Berna Ertugrul and Agustín Espinosa and Carla Sofia Esteves and Farida Guemaz and Mária Halamová and Iskra Herak and Ivana Hromatko and Chin Wai Hui and Jas Laile Jaafar and Feng Jiang and Konstantinos Kafetsios and Tina Kavčič and Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair and Nicolas O Kervyn and Imran Ahmed Khilji and Nils C. Köbis and others},

title = {Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective},

journal = {Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin},

year = {2021},

volume = {47},

publisher = {SAGE},

month = {feb},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220988373},

number = {12},

pages = {1705--1721},

doi = {10.1177/0146167220988373}

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Sorokowska, Agnieszka, et al. “Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 47, no. 12, Feb. 2021, pp. 1705-1721. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220988373.

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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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15527433 (Electronic)