ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2022
Affective regulation through touch: homeostatic and allostatic mechanisms.
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- Application of Affective Touch in Patients With Advanced Cancer: Effects on Existential Distress, Pain, and Quality of Life.The journal of nursing research : JNR · 2026Trial
- Observing positive and negative social touch triggers topographically distinct physical and emotional reactions in the body.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- MASSAG model: Towards an integrative neuroscience framework linking emotional trauma, pain, and mechanisms of force-based manipulations.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Review
- Vicarious Touch: A Potential Substitute for Social Touch During Touch Deprivation.European journal of social psychology · 2026Article
- Infant Caregiving as a Resilience Factor for Postpartum Substance Misuse: A Scoping Review.Adversity and resilience science · 2026Review
- Development of interoception: the critical role of maternal affective touch in early attachment.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Touch, temperature, and relief: a multilevel integrative model of hedonic regulation in massage and thermal therapies.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Does affective touch buffer emotional distress? Insights from subjective and physiological indices.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Is cultural context the crucial touch? Neurophysiological and self-reported responses to affective touch in women in South Africa and the United Kingdom.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Body as First Teacher: The Role of Rhythmic Visceral Dynamics in Early Cognitive Development.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Touch as emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- The meaning of touch: Relational and individual variables shape emotions and intentions associated with imagined social touch.European journal of social psychology · 2024Article
- Updating beliefs about pain following advice: Trustworthiness of social advice predicts pain expectations and experience.Cognition · 2024Article
- Evolutionarily conserved neural responses to affective touch in monkeys transcend consciousness and change with age.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- To touch or to be touched? comparing appraisal of vicarious execution and reception of interpersonal touch.PloS one · 2024Article
- Simulating the psychological and neural effects of affective touch with soft robotics: an experimental study.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2024Article
- Mother knows best: Mothers are more egocentric towards their own child's bodily feelings.Communications psychology · 2023Article
- Hedonic and autonomic responses in promoting affective touch.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
We focus on social touch as a paradigmatic case of the embodied, cognitive, and metacognitive processes involved in social, affective regulation. Social touch appears to contribute three interrelated but distinct functions to affective regulation. First, it regulates affects by fulfilling embodied predictions about social proximity and attachment. Second, caregiving touch, such as warming an infant, regulates affect by socially enacting homeostatic control and co-regulation of physiological states. Third, affective touch such as gentle stroking or tickling regulates affect by allostatic regulation of the salience and epistemic gain of particular experiences in given contexts and timescales. These three functions of affective touch are most likely mediated, at least partly, by different neurobiological processes, including convergent hedonic, dopaminergic and analgesic, opioidergic pathways for the attachment function, 'calming' autonomic and endocrine pathways for the homeostatic function, while the allostatic function may be mediated by oxytocin release and related 'salience' neuromodulators and circuits.
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