The comfort in touch: Immediate and lasting effects of handholding on emotional pain

• Razia S. Sahi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: rsahi1@ucla.edu

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8197-8307

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• Macrina C. Dieffenbach,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Siyan Gan,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

  Affiliation School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, United States of America

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• Maya Lee,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3991-5377

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• Laura I. Hazlett,

  Roles Data curation

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8368-895X

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• Shannon M. Burns,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States of America

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• Matthew D. Lieberman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Simone G. Shamay-Tsoory,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Naomi I. Eisenberger

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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