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ArticleScientific reports2023

Love and affectionate touch toward romantic partners all over the world.

Agnieszka Sorokowska, Marta Kowal, Supreet Saluja, Toivo Aavik, Charlotte Alm, Afifa Anjum, Kelly Asao, Carlota Batres, Aicha Bensafia, Boris Bizumic and 54 more

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Agnieszka SorokowskaInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Ul. Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland. agnieszka.sorokowska@uwr.edu.pl.
Marta KowalIDN Being Human Lab, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
Supreet SalujaMacquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Toivo AavikUniversity of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Charlotte AlmStockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Afifa AnjumUniversity of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Kelly AsaoWestminster College, Salt Lake City, USA.
Carlota BatresFranklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, USA.
Aicha BensafiaUniversity of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria.
Boris BizumicAustralian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Mahmoud BoussenaUniversity Setif2, Setif, Algeria.
David M BussUniversity of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA.
Marina ButovskayaRussian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Seda CanIzmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey.
Antonin CarrierUniversité catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Hakan CetinkayaYasar University, Izmir, Turkey.
Daniel Conroy-BeamUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA.
Rosa María CuetoPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
Marcin CzubInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Ul. Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland.
Seda DuralIzmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey.
Agustín EspinosaPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
Carla Sofia EstevesUniversidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa, Portugal.
Tomasz FrackowiakInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Ul. Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland.
Jorge Contreras-GarduñoEscuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico.
Farida GuemazUniversity Setif2, Setif, Algeria.
Ivana HromatkoUniversity of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Herak IskraUniversité catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Feng JiangUniversity of Greenwich, London, UK.
Konstantinos KafetsiosDepartment of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece.
Tina KavcicUniversity of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Nicolas KervynUniversité catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Nils C KöbisMax Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
Aleksandra KostićUniversity of Niš, Niš, Serbia.
András LángUniversity of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
Torun LindholmStockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Zoi ManesiVrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Norbert MeskóUniversity of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
Girishwar MisraUniversity of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Conal MonaghanAustralian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Jean Carlos NatividadePontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
George NizharadzeFree University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Elisabeth OberzaucherUniversity of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Anna OleszkiewiczInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Ul. Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland.
Ariela Francesca PaganiUniversity of Urbino, Urbino, Italy.
Vilmante PakalniskieneVilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Miriam PariseUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy.
Marija PejičićUniversity of Niš, Niš, Serbia.
Annette PisanskiUniversity of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Kasia PisanskiInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Ul. Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland.
Camelia PopaRomanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
Pavol ProkopComenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Ruta SargautyteVilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Shivantika SharadUniversity of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Franco SimonettiUniversidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Piotr SorokowskiInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Ul. Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland.
Michal Mikolaj StefanczykInstitute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, Ul. Dawida 1, 50-527, Wroclaw, Poland.
Anna SzagdajWroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland.
Meri TadinacUniversity of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Karina Ugalde GonzálezUniversidad Latina de Costa Rica, San José, USA.
Olga UhrynLviv State University of Internal Affairs, Lviv, Costa Rica.
Christin-Melanie VauclairInstituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal.
Gyesook YooKyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea.
Maja ZupančičUniversity of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ilona CroyInstitute of Psychology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany.

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Abstract

Touch is the primary way people communicate intimacy in romantic relationships, and affectionate touch behaviors such as stroking, hugging and kissing are universally observed in partnerships all over the world. Here, we explored the association of love and affectionate touch behaviors in romantic partnerships in two studies comprising 7880 participants. In the first study, we used a cross-cultural survey conducted in 37 countries to test whether love was universally associated with affectionate touch behaviors. In the second study, using a more fine-tuned touch behavior scale, we tested whether the frequency of affectionate touch behaviors was related to love in romantic partnerships. As hypothesized, love was significantly and positively associated with affectionate touch behaviors in both studies and this result was replicated regardless of the inclusion of potentially relevant factors as controls. Altogether, our data strongly suggest that affectionate touch is a relatively stable characteristic of human romantic relationships that is robustly and reliably related to the degree of reported love between partners.

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LoveTouch PerceptionHumansInterpersonal RelationsSexual BehaviorSexual PartnersTouch

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