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Find a full list of links to all articles written about our finding of a social softness illusion below: If you’ve covered the findings and don’t see your article below, please get in touch. Tempted To Touch: The ‘Social Softness…

Katlab’s latest research on the social softness illusion, published in Current Biology, is featured on the UCL However, good diabetes care and buying viagra without prescription management can prevent or delay the onset of more serious complications associated with this…

La peau douce, une illusion sociale Le Monde featured an article on the social softness illusion and an interview with Kat. “…« Ce qu’il y a de plus profond dans l’homme, c’est la peau », avait anticipé Paul Valéry. De…

Katlab’s latest published research on the social softness illusion is covered by the media: “Getting a caress or a pat on the back from someone you love is comforting, but not just for you. A new study suggests that when…

For the third year the Education Unit asked all MSc Clinical Neuroscience students to vote for their lecturer of the year, in our attempt to recognise and reward our outstanding lecturers. Students e-mailed their choice and after counting the votes…

Katlab were invited to demonstrate some of our research and methods at the Royal Institute’s Ri Lates event ‘Questioning Reality‘ on the 17th of April, 2015. We ran activities on pleasant touch, and invited the public to join Katerina and…

The messages posted every day for a month by the team as part of our recent, highly successful Body Image Campaign are now available to download from the website as an ebook. Current available formats include pdf and epub and…

The Inaugural Congress for the Internation Association for the study of Affective Touch was held to much success between the 20 and 22nd of March, 2015. Speakers and Chairs: included Emmanuel Bourinet (France), Carissa Cascio (USA), Chris Dijkerman (Netherlands), Katerina…

Katlab research features in an article and on the cover of this week’s edition of the New Scientist: … “Emotional touch is hugely influential in our lives, but some think it shapes a lot more than our day to- day…

We’d like to thank everyone who donated to our NPSA Body Image Campaign. In total, £1,263.98 has been pledged, which we think is an amazing achievement. We hope you enjoyed reading the research digest messages of the day, which will…