20.500.12556/RUL-152738 Love and affectionate touch toward romantic partners all over the world 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. touch love romantic relationships cross-cultural studies dotik ljubezen partnerski odnosi medkulturne študije true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2023-12-05 11:47:46 2023-12-05 11:47:51 2023-12-06 03:40:31 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023 0 0 Str. 1-13 article no. 5497 Vol. 13 2023 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2023-01-01 159.922:177.6 2045-2322 10.1038/s41598-023-31502-1 147821059 Zupancic_Love_and_affectionate_touch_toward_romantic_partners_all_over_the_world.pdf Zupancic_Love_and_affectionate_touch_toward_romantic_partners_all_over_the_world.pdf 1 EE8ECA4C6402BEA5F99CB389A88A2707 23af68382bddbdc594a4d933b6627e458a86d2a57317a409365b21cf17c8cdc4 d13d1097-935f-11ee-867f-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=178360 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31502-1 1 bca15dc7-935b-11ee-867f-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=178355 Zdravstvena fakulteta Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0