Touch communicates distinct emotions

Emotion

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 528-533

  Hertenstein, Matthew J ^a   Keltner, Dacher ^b   App, Betsy ^a   Bulleit, Brittany A ^a   Jaskolka, Ariane R ^a  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion communication; Physical contact; Tactile stimulation; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTRUISM; ANGER; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOVE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPAIN; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SEX FACTORS; TOUCH; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748328196     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.3.528     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Andersen, P. A. (1999). Nonverbal communication: Forms and function. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield.
2. Argyle, M. (1975). Bodily communication. Oxford, England: International Universities Press.
3. Banse, R., & Scherer, K. R. (1996). Acoustic profiles in vocal emotion expression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 614-636.
4. de Waal, F. (1989). Peacemaking among primates. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
5. Eibl-Eibesfeldt, I. (1989). Human ethology. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
6. Ekman, P. (1993). Facial expression and emotion. American Psychologist, 48, 384-392.
7. Elfenbein, H. A., & Ambady, N. (2002). On the universality and cultural specificity of emotion recognition: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 128, 203-235.
8. Field, T. (2001). Touch. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
9. Frank, M. G., & Stennett, J. (2001). The forced-choice paradigm and the perception of facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 75-85.
10. Frank, R. H. (2002). Altruism in competitive environments. In R. J. Davidson & A. Harrington (Eds.), Visions of compassion (pp. 182-211). New York: Oxford University Press.
11. Fridlund, A. J. (1997). The new ethology of human facial expressions. In J. A. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.), The psychology of facial expression (pp. 103-129). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
12. Haidt, J., & Keltner, D. (1999). Culture and facial expression: Open-ended methods find more expressions and a gradient of recognition. Cognition & Emotion, 13, 225-266.
13. Hertenstein, M. J. (2002). Touch: Its communicative functions in infancy. Human Development, 45, 70-94.
14. Hertenstein, M. J. (2005). Touch. In N. Salkind (Ed.), Encyclopedia of human development (Vol. 3, pp. 1275-1277). New York: Sage.
15. Hertenstein, M. J., & Campos, J. J. (2001). Emotion regulation via maternal touch. Infancy, 2, 549-566.
16. Jones, S. E., & Yarbrough, A. E. (1985). A naturalistic study of the meanings of touch. Communication Monographs, 52, 19-56.
17. Keltner, D., & Buswell, B. N. (1996). Evidence for the distinctness of embarrassment, shame, and guilt: A study of recalled antecedents and facial expressions of emotion. Cognition & Emotion, 10, 155-171.
18. Keltner, D., & Buswell, B. N. (1997). Embarrassment: Its distinct form and appeasement functions. Psychological Bulletin, 122, 250-270.
19. Keltner, D., Ekman, P., Gonzaga, G. C., & Beer, J. (2003). Facial expression of emotion. In R. J. Davidson & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences (pp. 415-432). London: Oxford University Press.
20. Knapp, M. L., & Hall, J. A. (1997). Nonverbal communication in human interaction (4th ed.). Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College.
21. McDaniel, E., & Andersen, P. A. (1998). International patterns of interpersonal tactile communication: A field study. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 22, 59-75.
22. Russell, J. A. (1994). Is there universal recognition of emotion from facial expressions? A review of the cross-cultural studies. Psychological Bulletin, 115, 102-141.
23. Scherer, K. R., Johnstone, T., & Klasmeyer, G. (2003). Vocal expression of emotion. In R. J. Davidson & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of affective sciences (pp. 433-456). London: Oxford University Press.
24. Smoski, M. J., & Bachorowski, J. A. (2003). Antiphonal laughter between friends and strangers. Cognition & Emotion, 17, 327-340.
25. Sober, E. (2002). Kindness and cruelty in evolution. In R. J. Davidson & A. Harrington (Eds.), Visions of compassion: Western scientists and Tibetan Buddhists examine human nature (pp. 46-65). New York: Oxford University Press.
26. Stack, D. M. (2001). The salience of touch and physical contact during infancy: Unraveling some of the mysteries of the somesthetic sense. In J. G. Bremner & A. Fogel (Eds.), Blackwell handbook of infant development (pp. 351-378). Malden, MA: Blackwell.
27. Tronick, E. Z. (1995). Touch in mother-infant interaction. In T. M. Field (Ed.), Touch in early development (pp. 53-65). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
28. Weiss, S. J. (1992). Measurement of the sensory qualities in tactile interaction. Nursing Research, 41, 82-86.