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I did an experiment on various groups of people using different textures. To test the theory that there is infact synaesthesia in all of us. The majority of people found that nothing came from touching them but the few that did all seemed to agree that the rougher materials came with negative emotion.

                                Tactile-emotion synaesthesia

A video camera recorded subjects' facial expressions and skin conductance responses (SCR) were monitored as they palpated different textures

AN EXPERIMENT DONE ON A SUFFERER OF TACTILE EMOTION SYNAESTHESIA
In patient AW, a 22-year-old female, the most vivid emotions are evoked by denim, which causes in her strong feelings of depression and disgust, and silk, which produces feelings of happiness and contentment. Other textures evoked a wide variety of emotions and feelings: when she touched corduroy, AW felt confused; leather aroused feelings of receiving criticism; multicoloured toothpaste made her feel anxious; wax made her feel embarrassed; tylenol gel caps made her feel jealous; and different grades of sand paper made her feel either guilt, relief, or as if she was telling a white lie.

       

HAPTIC COMMUNICATION


ITAMACY:
1. Functional/professional
2. Social/polite
3. Friendship/warmth
4. Love/intimacy
5. Sexual/arousal


Heslin (1974) outlines the five haptic categories

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