The suppression of spontaneous face touch and resulting consequences on memory performance of high and low self-touching individuals.

ABSTRACT: Spontaneous touching of one's own face (sFST) is an everyday behavior that occurs primarily in cognitively and emotionally demanding situations, regardless of a persons' age or gender. Recently, sFST have sparked scientific interest since they are associated with self-inoculation and transmission of respiratory diseases. Several studies addressed the need to reduce sFST behaviors without discussing the underlying functions of this spontaneous behavior. In addition, the question of why this behavior occurs very frequently in some individuals (high self-touching individuals, HT) but less frequently in others (low self-touching individuals, LT) has not yet been addressed. For the first time, we distinguished between HT and LT and investigated the behavioral consequences of sFST suppression in

SUBMITTER: Spille JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9125538 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature