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Human emotion communication by touch: a modified replication of an experiment by Manfred Clynes
S J Trussoni1, A O'Malley, A Barton
1Dalhousie University, Music Department, Atlantic Provinces Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Abstract:
In 1973 Manfred Clynes wrote a paper about the biocybernetics of emotion communication in which he described an experiment which seemed to point to a universal metalanguage with which human beings communicate specific emotions by touch. In an attempt to confirm Clyne's findings by replicating his experiment, a flaw was discovered in the design of his apparatus for detecting tactile patterns, and the replication study was undertaken using an improved pressure-detection instrument. Data from the replication study were analysed using various techniques but no correlations were found to confirm Clyne's original work.