Touch communicates distinct emotions.

By Matthew J. Hertenstein, Dacher Keltner, B. App, Brittany A Bulleit, Ariane R Jaskolka. Emotion, 2006

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A visual analytics approach to understanding cycling behaviour (2012, neutral): “Notwithstanding the common reference to the subjective intention of the parties, what courts really seem to look for is ‘what the parties as reasonable and fair-minded men would have agreed if a third party had drawn their attention to the point omitted.’”
Self-Transcendent Emotions and Their Social Functions: Compassion, Gratitude, and Awe Bind Us to Others Through Prosociality (2017, background): “Gratitude appears in a variety of cultures (McCullough et al., 2001) and experiences of gratitude are reliably communicated to others via specific patterns of tactile contact (Hertenstein et al., 2006) and verbal responses (e.g., “thank you”; Grant & Gino, 2010).”
Restricting the Use of Solitary Confinement (2018, background): “It is the most developed sensory modality at birth, and it contributes to cognitive, brain, and socioemotional development and childhood” (Hertenstein et al. 2006, p. 528; see also Hertenstein & Weiss 2011).”
What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Longitudinal Study of the Culture of Companionate Love and Employee and Client Outcomes in a Long-term Care Setting (2014, background): “…the construct of companionate love can consist of facial expressions, vocal tone, body language, touch, physiological sensations, subjective experience, cognitive appraisal, and behavioral action tendencies (Lasswell and Lasswell, 1976; Kleinginna and Kleinginna, 1981; Hertenstein et al., 2006).”
The science of interpersonal touch: an overview. (2010, neutral): “Indeed, touch is an important form of communication for many animals (see Hertenstein, 2002; Hertenstein et al., 2006a, 2006b; Moynihan, 1966; Weber, 2005).”
The Role of Affective Touch in Human-Robot Interaction: Human Intent and Expectations in Touching the Haptic Creature (2012, methodology): “We began with literature sources from human-animal interaction [1, 22, 23], human-human touch [47], and humanhuman affective touch [16, 17].”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “Over 53% of observers discerned that sympathy was being communicated through touch simply by watching the videotape of the hand making contact with the other’s forearm (Hertenstein et al., 2006).”