{"id":8810,"date":"2010-02-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/25\/the-underestimated-power-of-physical-communication\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:00:00","slug":"the-underestimated-power-of-physical-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/25\/the-underestimated-power-of-physical-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"The Underestimated Power of Physical Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/23\/health\/23mind.html?em\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES, February 22, 2010: Psychologists have long studied the grunts and winks of nonverbal communication, the vocal tones and facial expressions that carry emotion. A warm tone of voice, a hostile stare &#8212; both have the same meaning in Terre Haute or Timbuktu, and are among dozens of signals that form a universal human vocabulary. But in recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. <\/p>\n<p>Momentary touches, they say &#8212; whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the shoulder, or a creepy touch to the arm &#8212; can communicate an even wider range of emotion than gestures or expressions, and sometimes do so more quickly and accurately than words. &#8220;It is the first language we learn,&#8221; said Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. It remains, he said, &#8220;our richest means of emotional expression&#8221; throughout life.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of experiments led by Matthew Hertenstein, a psychologist at DePauw University in Indiana, volunteers tried to communicate a list of emotions by touching a blindfolded stranger. The participants were able to communicate eight distinct emotions, from gratitude to disgust to love, some with about 70 percent accuracy. &#8220;We used to think that touch only served to intensify communicated emotions,&#8221; Dr. Hertenstein said. Now it turns out to be &#8220;a much more differentiated signaling system than we had imagined.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.nytimes.com UNITED STATES, February 22, 2010: Psychologists have long studied the grunts and winks of nonverbal communication, the vocal,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}