Partner intimate touch is associated with increased interpersonal closeness, especially in non-romantic partners

• Nicole Prause ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Nicole.Prause@gmail.com

  Affiliation Liberos, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1420-9177

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• Greg J. Siegle,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• James Coan

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, North Carolina, United States of America

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