Some touching situations: The relationship between gender and contextual variables in cardiovascular responses to human touch

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 270-276

  Nilsen, Wendy J ^a   Vrana, Scott R ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTIMACY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; TOUCH;

EID: 0032411603     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02886376     Document Type: Article

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