Good habits: Holding hands (especially with a loved one)

[Maxmars]

I'm happy you appreciated this thread.  

Clearly there is some form of communicative energy that flows between people via physical contact.  It appears not to matter if a person's character is introvert or extrovert, aggressive or passive, introspective or irrespective.  What that is exactly seems elusive and indefinable as we are focusing on the effect, not the mechanism.  Enter science... as usual, complicating the study, rather than actually laying the observation to rest.

I found an interesting chart which compares the forms of contact which we socially control.  The double cheek kiss, the hug, the handholding, etc... and evidently - even though societally controlled, it is never - ever - completely restrained.  People touch for comfort in some manner across the human world.

("Touchability" in Europe - courtesy of the Atlantic)



While certainly not a universally applicable chart, I found it interesting.