Holding hands reduce pain in couples, study
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 04-07-2022
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The next time you're feeling in pain, skip the trip to the chemist
and reach for the hand of your loved one. That's the advice from new
research fresh out of the University of Colorado Boulder. The paper
supports a growing field of research into ‘interpersonal
synchronisation', a theory that suggests we take on the characteristics
and physiological functioning of our partners.
"We have developed
a lot of ways to communicate in the modern world and we have fewer
physical interactions," said Pavel Goldstein, a postdoctoral pain
researcher in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the
University. "This paper illustrates the power and importance of human
touch."