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Is hugging healthy?

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

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Is hugging important to health? A study by Carnegie Mellon University and published in the journal Psychological Science in 2015 claimed so. Psychologists interviewed 404 adults about their social lives, including how often they got into personal conflicts and how often they shared hugs with people they knew and trusted.

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