The social role of touch in humans and primates: behavioural function and neurobiological mechanisms.
By Robin I. M. Dunbar. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010
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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. (2014, background): “So , mammals are highly adapted for physical contact and to be emotionally regulated through touch, which stimulates soothing (Dunbar, 2010).”
- Discriminative and affective touch: sensing and feeling. (2014, background): “It is particularly interesting that the time spent on this behavior increases in larger social groups, suggesting that an essential role of grooming is to promote affectionate attachment between individuals and hence keep the group together (Dunbar, 2010).”
- The TacTip Family: Soft Optical Tactile Sensors with 3D-Printed Biomimetic Morphologies (2018, background): “The sense of touch is essential for interacting physically with our environment,(1) such as with other humans in social interactions.(2) In robotics, tactile feedback is essential for complex precision manipulation tasks(3) as well as for safe human–robot interaction.”
- Theories and possible processes of action in animal assisted interventions (2017, background): “…Carter, 2006; George & Solomon, 2008; Feldman, Gordon, & Zagoory-Sharon, 2011; Kenkel et al., 2012); the provision of care and social support, including feeding and grooming of a friendly animal, thus may have positive effects similar to receiving social support (Dunbar, 2010; Julius et al., 2013).”
- The brain opioid theory of social attachment: a review of the evidence (2011, background): “…added weight by the recent finding that there are striking differences in the histori cal rate of encephalisation between those taxa whose descendants now have bonded social systems (e.g., primates, equids) and those that, like rodents, do not (e.g., felids, ruminants) (Shultz & Dunbar, 2010).”
- Synchrony as an Adaptive Mechanism for Large-Scale Human Social Bonding (2016, positive): “…just oxytocin and vasopressin (e.g. Carter 1998) but also neurotransmitters such as dopamine and serotonin (e.g. Depue & Morrone-Strupinsky 2005), endocannabinoids (e.g. Trezza & Vanderschuren 2008) and the Endogeonous Opioid System (EOS; Curley & Keverne 2005; Dunbar 2010; Machin & Dunbar 2011).”