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| vyk6e_v2 | Hearing Touch: An Investigation of the Emotional Responses to the Sounds of Organic Affective Tactile Gestures | Affective touch is crucial in shaping social and intimate relationships, as it influences and helps regulate the emotional states of touchers and touchees. Furthermore, affective touch is complex, and a wide array of modulatory effects across sensory modalities has been demonstrated. However, little is known about the multisensory nature of affective touch itself and its emotional induction capabilities via non-tactile senses. Through four online experiments, the present research investigated the emotional responses to the auditory signals produced by organic affective touch (i.e., tactile gestures performed by real romantic partners). In Experiment 1, we identified the predominant affective touch gestures in which people typically engage. Experiment 2 revealed that, lacking explicit cues on the nature of the sounds, organic affective touch sounds elicited negative-to-neutral emotional responses, differing from those evoked by object-based interaction sounds. Moreover, we found that individuals were unable to confidently identify whether the sounds involved affective touch gestures. In Experiment 3, we found that framing the nature of the organic affective touch sounds explicitly as real affective touch, as opposed to object-based tactile interactions, elicited more positive emotional responses. Finally, the results of Experiment 4 revealed that higher levels of congruency between individuals' expectations regarding the sounds of affective touch and the real auditory cues positively influenced the valence elicited by sounds. These findings enhance our understanding of the multisensory nature of affective touch and underscore the importance of meaning in its emotional elicitation function. | 2025-05-10T19:34:22.165953 | 2025-05-10T19:43:01.309531 | 2025-05-10T19:42:38.529963 | psyarxiv | 1 | pending | 2 | 1 | https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vyk6e_v2 | CC-By Attribution 4.0 International | Affective Touch; Emotions; Haptics; Meaning; Sounds | ["Affective Touch", "Emotions", "Haptics", "Meaning", "Sounds"] | Francisco Barbosa Escobar; Malika Auvray | [{"id": "wb4vr", "name": "Francisco Barbosa Escobar", "index": 0, "orcid": "0000-0003-1784-451X", "bibliographic": true}, {"id": "8z5f3", "name": "Malika Auvray", "index": 1, "orcid": "0000-0002-4173-8146", "bibliographic": true}] | Francisco Barbosa Escobar | Social and Behavioral Sciences; Perception; Touch, Taste, and Smell; Audition; Multisensory Integration | [{"id": "5b4e7425c6983001430b6c1e", "text": "Social and Behavioral Sciences"}, {"id": "5b4e7427c6983001430b6c71", "text": "Perception"}, {"id": "5b4e7428c6983001430b6ccc", "text": "Touch, Taste, and Smell"}, {"id": "5b4e7428c6983001430b6cd9", "text": "Audition"}, {"id": "5b4e7429c6983001430b6ce8", "text": "Multisensory Integration"}] | https://osf.io/download/681fac0e979ddf4d407a1b9e | 0 | no | no | [] | 2025-05-11T00:11:37.455224 |