Browsing by Author "Saluja, Supreet"

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    Affective Interpersonal Touch in Close Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
    (2021) Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Saluja, Supreet; Sorokowski, Piotr; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Karwowski, Maciej; Aavik, Toivo; Akello, Grace; Alm, Charlotte; Amjad, Naumana; Anjum, Afifa; Asao, Kelly; Atama, Chiemezie S.; Atamturk Duyar, Derya; Ayebare, Richard; Batres, Carlota; Bendixen, Mons; Bensafia, Aicha; Bizumic, Boris; Boussena, Mahmoud; Buss, David M.; Butovskaya, Marina; Can, Seda; Cantarero, Katarzyna; Carrier, Antonin; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Chabin, Dominika; Conroy-Beam, Daniel; Contreras-Graduno, Jorge; Varella, Marco Antonio Correa; Cueto, Rosa Maria; Czub, Marcin; Dronova, Daria; Dural, Seda; Duyar, Izzet; Ertugrul, Berna; Espinosa, Agustin; Esteves, Carla Sofia; Guemaz, Farida; Hal'amova, Maria; Herak, Iskra; Hromatko, Ivana; Hui, Chin-Ming; Jaafar, Jas Laile; Jiang, Feng; Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Kavcic, Tina; Kennair, Leif Edward Ottesen; Kervyn, Nicolas O.; Khilji, Imran Ahmed; Koebis, Nils C.; Kostic, Aleksandra; Lang, Andras; Lennard, Georgina R.; Leon, Ernesto; Lindholm, Torun; Lopez, Giulia; Manesi, Zoi; Martinez, Rocio; McKerchar, Sarah L.; Mesko, Norbert; Misra, Girishwar; Monaghan, Conal; Mora, Emanuel C.; Moya-Garofano, Alba; Musil, Bojan; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Nizharadze, George; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Oleszkiewicz, Anna; Onyishi, Ike Ernest; Ozener, Baris; Pagani, Ariela Francesca; Pakalniskiene, Vilmante; Parise, Miriam; Pazhoohi, Farid; Pejicic, Marija; Pisanski, Annette; Pisanski, Katarzyna; Plohl, Nejc; Popa, Camelia; Prokop, Pavol; Rizwan, Muhammad; Sainz, Mario; Salkicevic, Svjetlana; Sargautyte, Ruta; Sarmany-Schuller, Ivan; Schmehl, Susanne; Shahid, Anam; Shaikh, Rizwana; Sharad, Shivantika; Siddiqui, Razi Sultan; Simonetti, Franco; Tadinac, Meri; Ugalde Gonzalez, Karina; Uhryn, Olga; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Vega Araya, Luis Diego; Widarini, Dwi Ajeng; Yoo, Gyesook; Zadeh, Zainab Fotowwat; Zat'kova, Marta; Zupancic, Maja; Croy, Ilona
    Interpersonal touch behavior differs across cultures, yet no study to date has systematically tested for cultural variation in affective touch, nor examined the factors that might account for this variability. Here, over 14,000 individuals from 45 countries were asked whether they embraced, stroked, kissed, or hugged their partner, friends, and youngest child during the week preceding the study. We then examined a range of hypothesized individual-level factors (sex, age, parasitic history, conservatism, religiosity, and preferred interpersonal distance) and cultural-level factors (regional temperature, parasite stress, regional conservatism, collectivism, and religiosity) in predicting these affective-touching behaviors. Our results indicate that affective touch was most prevalent in relationships with partners and children, and its diversity was relatively higher in warmer, less conservative, and religious countries, and among younger, female, and liberal people. This research allows for a broad and integrated view of the bases of cross-cultural variability in affective touch.
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    Love and affectionate touch toward romantic partners all over the world
    (2023) Sorokowska, Agnieszka; Kowal, Marta; Saluja, Supreet; Aavik, Toivo; Alm, Charlotte; Anjum, Afifa; Asao, Kelly; Batres, Carlota; Bensafia, Aicha; Bizumic, Boris; Boussena, Mahmoud; Buss, David. M. M.; Butovskaya, Marina; Can, Seda; Carrier, Antonin; Cetinkaya, Hakan; Conroy-Beam, Daniel; Cueto, Rosa Maria; Czub, Marcin; Dural, Seda; Espinosa, Agustin; Esteves, Carla Sofia; Frackowiak, Tomasz; Contreras-Garduno, Jorge; Guemaz, Farida; Hromatko, Ivana; Iskra, Herak; Jiang, Feng; Kafetsios, Konstantinos; Kavcic, Tina; Kervyn, Nicolas; Koebis, Nils C.; Kostic, Aleksandra; Lang, Andras; Lindholm, Torun; Manesi, Zoi; Mesko, Norbert; Misra, Girishwar; Monaghan, Conal; Natividade, Jean Carlos; Nizharadze, George; Oberzaucher, Elisabeth; Oleszkiewicz, Anna; Pagani, Ariela Francesca; Pakalniskiene, Vilmante; Parise, Miriam; Pejicic, Marija; Pisanski, Annette; Pisanski, Kasia; Popa, Camelia; Prokop, Pavol; Sargautyte, Ruta; Sharad, Shivantika; Simonetti, Franco; Sorokowski, Piotr; Stefanczyk, Michal Mikolaj; Szagdaj, Anna; Tadinac, Meri; Gonzalez, Karina Ugalde; Uhryn, Olga; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Yoo, Gyesook; Zupancic, Maja; Croy, Ilona
    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.