Tactile sensations
First of all, let's define what istactile sensations. This is a form of sensitivity of the skin, caused by the work of the skin receptors of two types: capsules consisting of cells of connective tissue, and plexuses of nerve endings that surround hair follicles. These sensations have a different character, depending on what they are caused by: touching or pressure, vibration, the effect of texture or extension.
More common is the notion of "touch", which is synonymous with the concept of "tactile sensations." This is one of the five basic feelings that a healthy person has.
Touch is one of the first feelings thatformed in humans at birth. Psychologists have concluded that many of our abstract concepts "grow" from these primary perceptions. With the help of American scientists who conducted a number of studies in this field, it was revealed that tactile sensations affect our state and behavior. For example, the feeling of heaviness activates the idea of "importance", "seriousness", roughness is associated with difficulties and anxiety.
American scientists who study tactilesensations, conducted a number of very interesting tests. For example, they asked passers-by to evaluate the resume of one of the candidates for work, but the essence of the test was completely different. Some subjects received a resume on a thin, pleasant to the touch paper, others exactly the same resume received in a heavy folder and got to know him standing up. The results were such that the subjects who received the "hard" summary, described the candidate as a serious and experienced person. Subjects with a "light" paper gave a characterization to the applicant as unreliable, but simple in communication, pleasant.
Another curious test, which says thattactile sensations strongly affect our subconscious, was conducted with chairs. Subjects on hard and soft chairs had to bargain with the seller of the car. Those who felt the comfort of a soft chair, became more compliant. Those who sat on a stiff chair were adamant in price and traded more efficiently.
From these tests it can be concluded thatdecision-making, thought process and other brain activity are strongly influenced by our sense organs, and in particular, by touch. Especially with this well-known psychologists, marketers, sales consultants, business coaches and others, closely related in their profession with manipulation, people.
Surely in the shops you noticed thatit is preferable and more reliable to touch any product before buying - this gives some information about it. Looking at the product is not always enough when receiving information. For this reason, supermarkets with self-service customers are so popular.
In general, the sensations are divided into severalspecies. There is a certain classification of sensations: the location of the receptors, the leading analyzer, the interaction of receptors and stimuli. Of course, there are other classifications, but this one is most popular.
Speaking about the types of human sensations, it is worthto mention distant (touch of smell, hearing and sight), contact (pain, taste, tactile sensations, vibrational, kinesthetic, etc.), deep (muscular, vestibular sensitivity, dizziness, etc.). In a person deprived of any or a kind of sensation, it is replaced by another by increasing sensitivity. For example, blind people have a more developed hearing than healthy people, and deaf mutes develop their tactile perception. All kinds of sensations closely interact with each other and depend on each other.
