I wanna hold your hand: Handholding is preferred over gentle stroking for emotion regulation

• Haran Sened ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: haranse@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0467-1154

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• Chen Levin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Manar Shehab,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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• Naomi Eisenberger,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Simone Shamay-Tsoory

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

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