The comfort in touch: Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional pain

Autor: Razia S. Sahi, Naomi I. Eisenberger, Macrina C. Dieffenbach, Siyan Gan, Laura I. Hazlett, Matthew D. Lieberman, Shannon M. Burns, Maya Lee, Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory
Přispěvatelé: Eisenbarth, Hedwig
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
Physiology
Sensory Physiology
Emotions
Social Sciences
050109 social psychology
Surveys
Developmental psychology
Task (project management)
Cognition
Learning and Memory
Medicine and Health Sciences
Psychology
media_common
Multidisciplinary
05 social sciences
Pain Research
Sensory Systems
Mental Health
Feeling
Somatosensory System
Research Design
Memory Recall
Medicine
Female
Chronic Pain
Research Article
Adult
General Science & Technology
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Science
Pain
Psychological Stress
Research and Analysis Methods
Interpersonal Relationships
050105 experimental psychology
Interpersonal relationship
Social support
Signs and Symptoms
Memory
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Behavioral and Social Science
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Interpersonal Relations
Survey Research
Recall
Neurosciences
Biology and Life Sciences
Pain Sensation
Collective Human Behavior
Multicenter study
Touch
Cognitive Science
Clinical Medicine
Mind and Body
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 2, p e0246753 (2021)
PloS one, vol 16, iss 2
PLoS ONE
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Consoling touch is a powerful form of social support that has been repeatedly demonstrated to reduce the experience of physical pain. However, it remains unknown whether touch reduces emotional pain in the same way that it reduces physical pain. The present research sought to understand how handholding with a romantic partner shapes experiences of emotional pain and comfort during emotional recollection, as well as how it shapes lasting emotional pain associated with emotional experiences. Participants recalled emotionally painful memories or neutral memories with their partners, while holding their partner’s hand or holding a squeeze-ball. They additionally completed a follow-up survey to report how much emotional pain they associated with the emotional experiences after recalling them in the lab with their partners. Although consoling touch did not reduce emotional pain during the task, consoling touch increased feelings of comfort. Moreover, participants later recalled emotional memories that were paired with touch as being less emotionally painful than those that were not paired with touch. These findings suggest that touch does not decrease the immediate experience of emotional pain and may instead support adaptive processing of emotional experiences over time.
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