Introduction: Studying Woolly Monkeys

Defler, Thomas R.; Stevenson, Pablo R.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0697-0_1

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“…Animal Data Tactile behaviors may be used to signal positive (i.e., greeting and play) and negative affective states (aggression) in mammals (de Waal, 1989;Goodall, 1968;Nishida, 1970;Wilson & Kleiman, 1974). Head-to-head greetings as well as head-to-chest greetings and huddling have been observed in wild and captive woolly monkeys (Lagothrix; Defler & Stevenson, 2014). In chimpanzees, Goodall (1968) observed that greetings include touching of the hand, shoulders, back, groin, thigh or genital area of conspecifics, and these were contingent on the length of time the primates had been separated, mutual attraction and mood (Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, 1989).…”

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The Functions of Human Touch: An Integrative Review

Saluja,

Croy,

Stevenson

2024

J Nonverbal Behav

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There appears to be no attempt to categorize the specific classes of behavior that the tactile system underpins. Awareness of how an organism uses touch in their environment informs understanding of its versatility in non-verbal communication and tactile perception. This review categorizes the behavioral functions underpinned by the tactile sense, by using three sources of data: (1) Animal data, to assess if an identified function is conserved across species; (2) Human capacity data, indicating whether the tactile sense can support a proposed function; and (3) Human impaired data, documenting the impacts of impaired tactile functioning (e.g., reduced tactile sensitivity) for humans. From these data, three main functions pertinent to the tactile sense were identified: Ingestive Behavior; Environmental Hazard Detection and Management; and Social Communication. These functions are reviewed in detail and future directions are discussed with focus on social psychology, non-verbal behavior and multisensory perception.

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