- Your "touch personality"
- How touch defines our relationships and our self-esteem
- The impact of touch on our physical and mental health
- Cultural distinctions around touch and how to navigate them
- Solutions to the "touch hunger" that has become a modern epidemic
Touch Matters is a fascinating window into one of our most important and basic senses--and how to harness its power. FEATURES ORIGINAL RESEARCH FROM "THE TOUCH TEST" Touch Matters is based on one of Banissy's most recent projects--the Touch Test--a science and broadcast collaboration with the BBC and Wellcome Collection. This project explored attitudes and experiences of touch via the world's largest contemporary survey on the topic, public exhibitions, and a series of broadcast programs focused on the topic of touch that received worldwide attention. The project had approximately 40,000 participants from 112 countries. OFFERS GUIDANCE ON COMMUNICATING AND CONNECTING IN OUR DAILY AND PROFESSIONAL LIVES: As we return to office work and live in a world where touch has become loaded with meaning, this book will help people understand how important touch is and the role it plays in every aspect of our lives, from relationships and friendships to the workplace and team activities and much more. Perfect for:
- Readers interested in science, psychology, and self-help
- Fans of James Nestor's Breath, Marc Brackett's Permission to Feel, Bill Bryson's The Body, Mark Miodownik's Stuff Matters
- Adults and parents of children resuming in-person activities including going back to the office, returning to school, traveling, and socializing
- Those interested in learning more about the science of touch, touch starvation, and how important touch is to child/human development
- People struggling with depression or anxiety around physical contact