68 relations: Affection, Aggression, Anger, Anxiety, Bertram Raven, Cheek kissing, Civil inattention, Combat, Courtship, Cultural studies, Culture, Disgust, Display rules, Edward T. Hall, Emotion, Erotic massage, Esquire (magazine), Euphemism, Frotteurism, Gender role, Gratitude, Greeting, Groping, Handshake, Haptic perception, Haptic technology, Harry Harlow, High-context and low-context cultures, Holding hands, Hug, Human physical appearance, Human sexual activity, Infant, Interpersonal relationship, Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, Judee K. Burgoon, Kick, Kiss, Latin America, Linguistics, Making out, Marriage, Massage, Metaphor, National Domestic Violence Hotline, Negiah, Nonverbal communication, Personal boundaries, Physical abuse, Physical intimacy, ..., Platonic love, Power (social and political), Proxemics, Regulatory compliance, Rhesus macaque, Sarcasm, Sexual attraction, Social exclusion, Somatosensory system, Strangling, Strategy, Strike (attack), Terrycloth, Therapeutic touch, Tickling, University of Miami, University of Virginia, Visual perception. Expand index (18 more) »
Affection
Affection, attraction, infatuation, or fondness is a "disposition or state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love.
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Aggression
Aggression is overt, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other unpleasantness upon another individual.
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Anger
Anger or wrath is an intense negative emotion.
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Anxiety
Anxiety is an emotion characterized by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behaviour such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints, and rumination.
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Bertram Raven
Bertram H. Raven (born September 26, 1926) is an American academic, who has been a member of the faculty of the Psychology Department at UCLA since 1956, where he is currently a professor emeritus.
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Cheek kissing
Cheek kissing is a ritual or social kissing gesture to indicate friendship, family relationship, perform a greeting, to confer congratulations, to comfort someone, to show respect, or to indicate sexual or romantic interest.
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Civil inattention
Civil inattention is the process whereby strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another, without imposing on each other – a recognition of the claims of others to a public space, and of their own personal boundaries.
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Combat
Combat (French for fight) is a purposeful violent conflict meant to weaken, establish dominance over, or kill the opposition, or to drive the opposition away from a location where it is not wanted or needed.
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Courtship
Courtship is the period of development towards an intimate relationship wherein people (usually a couple) get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement or other romantic arrangement.
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Cultural studies
Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.
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Culture
Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.
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Disgust
Disgust is an emotional response of revulsion to something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant.
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Display rules
Display rules are a social group or culture's informal norms that distinguish how one should express themselves.They can be described as culturally prescribed rules that people learn early on in their lives by interactions and socializations with other people.
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Edward T. Hall
Edward Twitchell Hall, Jr. (May 16, 1914 – July 20, 2009) was an American anthropologist and cross-cultural researcher.
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Emotion
Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.
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Erotic massage
Erotic massage or sensuous massage is the use of massage techniques by a person on another person's erogenous zones to achieve or enhance their sexual excitation or arousal and to achieve orgasm.
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Esquire (magazine)
Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.
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Euphemism
A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant.
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Frotteurism
Frotteurism is a paraphilic interest in rubbing, usually one's pelvic area or erect penis, against a non-consenting person for sexual pleasure.
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Gender role
A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.
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Gratitude
Appreciation Gratitude, thankfulness, thanksgiving, or gratefulness, from the Latin word gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’, is a feeling of appreciation felt by and/or similar positive response shown by the recipient of kindness, gifts, help, favors, or other types of generosity, towards the giver of such gifts.
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Greeting
Greeting is an act of communication in which human beings intentionally make their presence known to each other, to show attention to, and to suggest a type of relationship (usually cordial) or social status (formal or informal) between individuals or groups of people coming in contact with each other.
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Groping
When used in a sexual context, groping is touching or fondling another person in an unwelcome sexual way using the hands.
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Handshake
A handshake is a short ritual in which two people grasp one of each other's like hands, in most cases accompanied by a brief up-and-down movement of the grasped hands.
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Haptic perception
Haptic perception (italics "palpable", haptikόs "suitable for touch") means literally the ability "to grasp something".
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Haptic technology
Haptic or kinesthetic communication recreates the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, or motions to the user.
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Harry Harlow
Harry Frederick Harlow (October 31, 1905 – December 6, 1981) was an American psychologist best known for his maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which manifested the importance of caregiving and companionship to social and cognitive development.
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High-context and low-context cultures
High-context culture and low-context culture are terms used to describe cultures based on how explicit the messages exchanged are and how much the context means in certain situations.
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Holding hands
Holding hands is a form of physical intimacy involving two or more people.
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Hug
A hug is a form of endearment, universal in human communities, in which two or more people put their arms around the neck, back, or waist of one another and hold each other closely.
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Human physical appearance
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings.
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Human sexual activity
Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express their sexuality.
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Infant
An infant (from the Latin word infans, meaning "unable to speak" or "speechless") is the more formal or specialised synonym for "baby", the very young offspring of a human.
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Interpersonal relationship
An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.
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Intrinsic and extrinsic properties
An intrinsic property is a property of a system or of a material itself or within.
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Judee K. Burgoon
Judee K. Burgoon is a professor of Communication, Family Studies and Human Development at the University of Arizona, where she serves as Director of Research for the Center for the Management of Information and Site Director for the NSF-sponsored Center for Identification Technology Research.
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Kick
A kick is a physical strike using the leg, foot, heel, tibia, thigh or knee (the latter is also known as a knee strike).
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Kiss
A kiss is the touch or pressing of one's lips against another person or an object.
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Latin America
Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context.
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Making out
Making out is a term of American origin, dating back to at least 1949, and is used variously to refer to kissing, petting, and necking, but may also refer to non-penetrative sex acts such as heavy petting.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).
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Massage
Massage is to work and act on the body with pressure.
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Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.
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National Domestic Violence Hotline
The National Domestic Violence Hotline is a 24-hour confidential service that can be reached through calling or online chatting.
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Negiah
Negiah (נגיעה), literally "touch", is the concept in Jewish law (Halakha) that forbids or restricts physical contact with a member of the opposite sex (except for one's spouse, children, siblings, grandchildren, parents, and grandparents).
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Nonverbal communication
Nonverbal communication (NVC) between people is communication through sending and receiving wordless cues.
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Personal boundaries
Personal boundaries are guidelines, rules or limits that a person creates to identify reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave towards them and how they will respond when someone passes those limits.
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Physical abuse
Physical abuse is any intentional act causing injury or trauma to another person or animal by way of bodily contact.
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Physical intimacy
Physical intimacy is sensual proximity or touching.
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Platonic love
Platonic love (often lower-cased as platonic) is a term used for a type of love, or close relationship that is non-sexual.
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Power (social and political)
In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people.
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Proxemics
Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication, and social interaction.
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Regulatory compliance
In general, compliance means conforming to a rule, such as a specification, policy, standard or law.
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Rhesus macaque
The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is one of the best-known species of Old World monkeys.
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Sarcasm
Sarcasm is "a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter gibe or taunt".
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Sexual attraction
Sexual attraction is attraction on the basis of sexual desire or the quality of arousing such interest.
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Social exclusion
Social exclusion, or social marginalization, is the social disadvantage and relegation to the fringe of society.
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Somatosensory system
The somatosensory system is a part of the sensory nervous system.
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Strangling
Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain.
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Strategy
Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία stratēgia, "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.
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Strike (attack)
A strike is a directed physical attack with either a part of the human body or with an inanimate object (such as a weapon) intended to cause blunt trauma or penetrating trauma upon an opponent.
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Terrycloth
Terrycloth, terry cloth, terry cotton, terry towelling, terry, or simply towelling is a fabric with loops that can absorb large amounts of water.
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Therapeutic touch
Therapeutic touch (commonly shortened to "TT"), known by some as "non-contact therapeutic touch" (NCTT), is a pseudoscientific energy therapy which practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety.
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Tickling
Tickling is the act of touching a part of a body in a way that causes involuntary twitching movements or laughter.
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University of Miami
The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.
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University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (U.Va. or UVA), frequently referred to simply as Virginia, is a public research university and the flagship for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Visual perception
Visual perception is the ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum reflected by the objects in the environment.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haptic_communication