Say the government outright forbids handshaking, on the theory that it needlessly risks spreading illness (illness that, whether for COVID-19 or for ordinary cold and flu, creates some risk of death ...

Handshaking is a key part of Michelle Ngome’s networking game as a marketing professional. Which is why Ngome, president of the African American Marketing Association and host of the “Networking With ...

I’ve never been especially fond of shaking hands. As a child, I rated it on the same level of personal disdain as being kissed by smothering, elderly aunts with the facial hair of a porcupine. I lay ...

You run into a friend you haven't seen since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic -- how do you greet them? Do you shake hands? Do you fist bump? Maybe an elbow bump?These days, people are ...

Westerners view handshaking more positively than do East Asians, researchers report in a new study. Western men also rate handshakes initiated by men and women differently, the study found. Westerners ...

For most of us, shaking hands is a custom that we perform automatically, without much thought. But for handshaking guru Robert Brown, the handshake is a subtle art that he has spent 42 years studying.

If you worry about first impressions when you land in the U.S., take note: people from the West have a more positive view of handshaking than East Asians, a new study shows. Researchers from the ...

Evidence is mounting that alternatives to hand-to-hand contact between and among healthcare workers and sick people are necessary to curb the spread of infection. When patients visit Mark Schenkel, MD ...

Unlike dogs and other animals, humans — for the most part — don’t sniff each other. Well, at least that’s what we thought. A rather unsettling new study from the Weizmann Institute shows that ...