Interlacing fingers with your partner while walking down the street may seem like NBD, but there’s way more to holding hands than you might think. While this form of PDA is, to be fair, more PG than R ...

When tension rises between partners, the natural instinct often drives couples to create distance—both emotional and physical. Yet counterintuitively, maintaining contact during these challenging ...

Holding hands is one of the most universal human gestures. Yet the longer people maintain that touch, the more it can reveal about their psychological state, emotional regulation, and even social ...

We often see couples strolling along crowded streets, on the beach, even sitting on their own front porch holding hands. How important is hand-holding to relationship satisfaction? Having a Hand to ...

When couples face relationship hurdles, the instinct might be to create physical distance. Yet research suggests that maintaining physical connection—specifically holding hands—during challenging ...

When I tell people that I study "PDAs" (Public Displays of Affection), often it seems that their first thought is to think of a young couple making out on a park bench or stopping traffic for a ...