Massage therapy effects.
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Skin-to-skin contact and other forms of tactile stimulation improve stress coping in animals and humans.
“Skin-to-skin contact and other forms of tactile stimulation improve stress coping in animals and humans [[3], [4], [5], [6]].”
From Self-soothing touch and being hugged reduce cortisol responses to stress: A randomized controlled trial on stress, physical touch, and social identity (2021) · cites this paper as [4]
Receiving tactile stimulation relates to increased vagus nerve activity in a pressure-based process, which causes decreased physiological responses such as lower HPA activity, lower autonomic nervous system activity, and lower overall arousal.
“Furthermore, receiving tactile stimulation relates to increased vagus nerve activity in a pressure-based process, which causes decreased physiological responses such as lower HPA activity, lower autonomic nervous system activity, and lower overall arousal [4,20].”
From Self-soothing touch and being hugged reduce cortisol responses to stress: A randomized controlled trial on stress, physical touch, and social identity (2021) · cites this paper as [4]
Touch improves stress coping through several physiological mechanisms.
“Touch improves stress coping through several physiological mechanisms [4,14].”
From Self-soothing touch and being hugged reduce cortisol responses to stress: A randomized controlled trial on stress, physical touch, and social identity (2021) · cites this paper as [4]
Our finding that receiving hugs from people is effective irrespective of sharing a social identity with them is in line with the benefits of massage therapy and animal studies.
“Despite these potential explanations, our finding that receiving hugs from people is effective irrespective of sharing a social identity with them is in line with the benefits of massage therapy [4,5] and animal studies (e.g., Ref. [6]).”
From Self-soothing touch and being hugged reduce cortisol responses to stress: A randomized controlled trial on stress, physical touch, and social identity (2021) · cites this paper as [4]
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Cited by 365
- Authors
- Field, T. M.
- Corresponding author
- Field, Tiffany M.
- ORCID
- Field, Tiffany M.
- Venue
- American Psychologist
- Published
- 1998
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 1270-1281
- ISSN
- 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
- 1935-990X
- OpenAlex
- W4319292989
- Cited by
- 365
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 22
- FWCI
- 12.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- clarification (2006-07-10)
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Myofascial pain diagnosis and treatment
- Keywords
- massage, therapeutic effects, relaxation, analgesia
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