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Hug-deprived people may get more severe colds
Hug-deprived people may get more severe colds Want to stay well this flu season? New research suggests you can inoculate yourself with a hug—sort of. For a study published Thursday in the journal Psychological Science, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University had an inkling that hugs—as an indicator of social support but also because it involves touch—might pack a flu-fighting punch. Studies have shown that strong social ties can protect against stress, anxiety and depression, and the researchers wanted to see if they can be a buffer for a purely physiological diseases, too. The researchers discovered that it did. |
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