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Touching Through: The Puzzle of Mediated Contact

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is natural to think that one person touches another when their bodies make direct contact. However, much interpersonal touch is not like this. We often touch people through things like their clothing. But this raises a puzzle: How can you touch someone without directly touching the surface of their body?
William Hornett, Robert Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

Transboundary Spanning in Social Movements: Organizational Structure and Antiracism in the US Extinction Rebellion Movement

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries.
Tobias Müller, Peter Gardner
wiley   +1 more source

Aging and the Division of Labor of Theory of Mind Skills in Metaphor Comprehension

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While some aspects of pragmatic competence are known to decline with age, for metaphor skills the evidence is inconclusive, possibly due to heterogeneity in the assessment tools. Furthermore, the previous literature on age‐related changes in pragmatic skills has rarely considered the role of Theory of Mind (ToM), which is described as one of ...
Irene Ceccato   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Women in space: A review of known physiological adaptations and health perspectives

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure to the spaceflight environment causes adaptations in most human physiological systems, many of which are thought to affect women differently from men. Since only 11.5% of astronauts worldwide have been female, these issues are largely understudied.
Millie Hughes‐Fulford   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spaceborne and spaceborn: Physiological aspects of pregnancy and birth during interplanetary flight

open access: yesExperimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Crewed interplanetary return missions that are on the planning horizon will take years, more than enough time for initiation and completion of a pregnancy. Pregnancy is viewed as a sequence of processes – fertilization, blastocyst formation, implantation, gastrulation, placentation, organogenesis, gross morphogenesis, birth and neonatal ...
Arun V. Holden
wiley   +1 more source

Attenuated behavioral interpersonal synchrony in autistic adults is not explained by perception of timing. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Rep
Bierlich AM   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Distinct effects of fibromyalgia pain, depression and anxiety on perception of affective touch and pain

open access: yesThe Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and no‐pain controls completed questionnaire‐based ratings of chronic pain, childhood trauma, anxiety and depression. Brief touch stimuli were then administered, including slow brushing at the C‐tactile optimal velocity of 3 cm/s, deep oscillating pressure with a compression sleeve, roboticized ...
Benedetta Albinni   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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