咳咳……

“抱抱”这个动作

是中国人从古至今的禁忌

乃至身体之间的接触也非常忌讳

就连说说……

男女授受不亲

连互相传话赠物都是要借助第三人

兄弟之间也唯有情绪激动

才可能“抱抱”

比如三国时期“江东双璧”

“小霸王”孙策和周瑜

基情四射一时无两

《三国志·吴书周瑜传》历历在目

什么福尔摩斯和华生/万磁王和X教授

都差了99座断背山

像古装剧里

不“抱抱”不足以表爱情

不“抱抱”不足以表基情

不“抱抱”不足以表亲情

“放过孩子们吧”

动不动大庭广众之下搂搂抱抱卿卿我我

古代是小概率事件

但步入现代社会后

尤其是和世界交流日渐广泛

现在“抱抱”在中国

已经稀松平常了

可你知道

“抱抱”里有科学！

能多拿“包包”、少点压力

基情永久、爱情保鲜

快来看看吧！

Four Scientific Facts About Hugging

1. How long is the average hug? According to one study, 3.17 seconds.

A study led by Emese Nagy from the University of Dundee analyzed 188 spontaneous hugs between athletes and their coaches, competitors, and supporters during the 2008 Summer Olympics Games (Nagy, 2011). The results? The average hug lasted 3.17 seconds and was neither influenced by the gender combination of the hugging pair, nor by the nationality of the two huggers.

3. Most people hug to the right, but our emotions affect how we hug.

When we hug, we wrap our arms around another person. Typically, we lead the hug with one arm. A German study in which I was a co-author analyzed whether people preferentially hug with their left or their right arm. In this study, we observed hugging couples at the arrivals or departure lounges at international airports and also analyzed videos of people who blindfold themselves and let strangers hug them on the street. We found that overall, most people hugged to the right. In the emotionally neutral situation in which strangers hugged a blindfolded person, 92% hugged to the right. However, in more emotional situations, that is, when people hugged their friends or partners at the airport, only about 81% of people hugged to the right. Since the left hemisphere of the brain controls the right half of the body and vice versa, we believe that this leftward shift in hugging is due to a greater involvement of the right hemisphere of the brain for emotional processes during hugging in these situations.

3. Hugging improves how we deal with stress.

Public speaking is stressful for almost anyone—but hugging before entering the stage can make it less stressful. A study from the University of North Carolina investigated how hugging before a stressful event reduced the negative effects of stress on the body (Grewen et al., 2003). Two groups of couples were tested: In one group, partners were given 10 minutes time to hold hands and watch a romantic movie, followed by a 20 second hug. In the other group, the partners just rested quietly and did not touch each other. Afterwards one partner had to participate in a very stressful public speaking task and their blood pressure and heart rate were measured while they spoke. The results? Individuals who had received a hug from their partner prior to being stressed showed significantly lower blood pressure and heart rate than those who did not touch their partners before the public speaking task. Thus, hugging leads to lower reactivity to stressful events and may benefit cardiovascular health.

4. Humans are not the only ones that embrace each other.

While humans hug a lot compared to most animals, we are certainly not the only species to use hugging to communicate social or emotional meaning. A study by researchers from Florida International University investigated hugging in the Colombian spider monkey, a highly social monkey species that lives in forests in Colombia and Panama. They found that unlike humans, the monkey had not one but two distinct types of embraces: embraces and face-embraces. An embrace resembled a typical hug in humans in that the monkeys wrapped their arms around each other and placed their heads on the shoulder of the other monkey. A face-embrace, on the other hand, did not involve the arms. Here, the monkeys basically hugged with their faces only by rubbing their cheeks against each other. Like humans, the monkeys showed a preferred side for hugging: For embraces, 80% preferred to hug to the left side.

总结起来四句话

“抱抱”三秒，红包不少~

“抱抱”右边，基友不掉~

“抱抱”爱人，压力变小~

“抱抱”猫狗，舒适上调~

科学的“抱抱”，多多的“红包”