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Maybe it's just me, but I get the implicature that they tested consensual and non-consensual hugs in their effects on stress, the latter of which seems like it
by glup 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I get the implicature that they tested consensual and non-consensual hugs in their effects on stress, the latter of which seems like it would be hard to get past an institutional review board.
- dragonwriter 8y agoOr just tested consensual hugs and didn't want to imply an effect outside of what was tested; that seems more likely to survive an IRB.
- perpetualpatzer 8y agoI inferred the same and was quite excited to see the results. In fact, it seems they just asked people about hugs they received generally, without distinguishing between consensual and non-consensual hugs. Classic case of popular science reporting over-promising and under-delivering.