HOUSTON — It’s a common gesture across cultures and there are plenty of studies to show holding hands has a lot of benefits. According to the Washington Post, it can help lower blood pressure ...

Studies show that holding ... In a recent study from the University of London, participants were able to correctly identify another person’s emotion just by looking at their hands without ...

The results: The hand configuration that produced the loudest clap—85.2 dB—consisted of holding the hands 45 degrees to each other with the palms partially overlapping. If one were more ...

Holding hands can help relieve stress. In a study titled “Self-soothing touch and being hugged reduce cortisol responses to stress: A randomized controlled trial on stress, physical touch ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Today is National Hand Holding Day. What does hand holding say about relationships? If anything at all. Hand holding shows an emotional connection between people. Not only do ...

The result is a robotic hand that intuitively "knows" what it's touching, much like the nervous system does, Thakor said. "If you're holding a cup of coffee, how do you know you're about to drop it?

Interlacing fingers with your partner while walking down the street may seem like NBD, but there’s way more to holding hands than you might think. While this form of PDA is, to be fair ...

Holding hands ... the other’s hand, observed Edwin van Leeuwen, an assistant professor of animal behavior and cognition at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and lead study author.