"Touch Me If You Can!": Individual Differences in Disease Avoidance and Social Touch.

Evol Psychol · 2021 · PMC10358415 · PMID 34874187

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failed to reach significanceno p-value reported

In spite of an observed positive correlation between perceived infectability and social touch, this was low in magnitude and failed to reach significance ( r = .09, ns ).

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marginally significantno p-value reported

The correlation between germ aversion and agreeableness was marginally significant, with more germ aversion being associated with lower scores on this personality trait.

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