title: Human emotion communication by touch: a modified replication of an experiment by Manfred Clynes.
abstract: In 1973 Manfred Clynes wrote a paper about the biocybernetics of emotion communication in which he described an experiment which seemed to point to a universal metalanguage with which human beings communicate specific emotions by touch. In an attempt to confirm Clyne's findings by replicating his experiment, a flaw was discovered in the design of his apparatus for detecting tactile patterns, and the replication study was undertaken using an improved pressure-detection instrument. Data from the replication study were analysed using various techniques but no correlations were found to confirm Clyne's original work.
authors.affiliation: Dalhousie University, Music Department, Atlantic Provinces Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Trussoni
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: O'Malley
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barton
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D011932:Reading; D014110:Touch