Haptics

Haptics

Questions

Question

Haptics incorporates five different types of touch (functional-professional, social-polite, friendship-warmth, love-intimacy, sexual-arousal). Which of these five do you observe in this scene? Where do they occur in the scene?

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What meanings do you derive from the way someone shakes your hand?

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Do you know of any ways that the meaning of touch varies in different cultures?