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    The passage discusses how touch between people outside of intimate relationships and family has become less common and more awkward in adulthood. Doctors and teachers are warned against comforting patients and pupils with hugs due to legal concerns. Over 500,000 older people in the UK go at least 5 days a week without touching another person, contributing to a loneliness epidemic. Experts are worried about the consequences of this "lack of touch", which is not good for mental health, as touch encourages social connection and reduces feelings of social exclusion and stress. While there is no data connecting it yet, some argue declining touch may be related to increased mobile technology use where people are wrapped in their own worlds rather than connecting with each other.

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    The passage discusses how touch between people outside of intimate relationships and family has become less common and more awkward in adulthood. Doctors and teachers are warned against comforting patients and pupils with hugs due to legal concerns. Over 500,000 older people in the UK go at least 5 days a week without touching another person, contributing to a loneliness epidemic. Experts are worried about the consequences of this "lack of touch", which is not good for mental health, as touch encourages social connection and reduces feelings of social exclusion and stress. While there is no data connecting it yet, some argue declining touch may be related to increased mobile technology use where people are wrapped in their own worlds rather than connecting with each other.

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    The passage discusses how touch between people outside of intimate relationships and family has become less common and more awkward in adulthood. Doctors and teachers are warned against comforting patients and pupils with hugs due to legal concerns. Over 500,000 older people in the UK go at least 5 days a week without touching another person, contributing to a loneliness epidemic. Experts are worried about the consequences of this "lack of touch", which is not good for mental health, as touch encourages social connection and reduces feelings of social exclusion and stress. While there is no data connecting it yet, some argue declining touch may be related to increased mobile technology use where people are wrapped in their own worlds rather than connecting with each other.

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    COMISIÓN GESTORA DE LAS PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD

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    Pospuestos PROVES D’ACCÉS A LA UNIVERSITAT PRUEBAS DE ACCESO A LA UNIVERSIDAD

    Enviados CONVOCATÒRIA: JUNY 2018 CONVOCATORIA: JUNIO 2018


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    NO HUGGING: ARE WE LIVING THROUGH A CRISIS OF TOUCH?

    When did you last touch someone outside your family or intimate relationship? Touch is the )rst sense
    humans develop. But somewhere in adulthood what was instinctive to us as children has come to feel
    awkward. In countless ways social touch is being eliminated from our lives.

    In the UK, doctors were warned last month to avoid comfo'ing patients with hugs to avoid legal
    action. Teachers hesitate to touch pupils. And in the UK, in a loneliness epidemic, half a million older
    people go at least )ve days a week without touching a person.

    What do humans risk losing, when we lose touch? Francis McGlone, a leader in a*ective touch, is
    worried: “We have demonised touch to a level at which it provokes hysterical responses, and this lack
    of touch is not good for mental health”, he says.

    McGlone says: “The pleasantness of touch encourages us to keep touching, pleasing babies and
    connecting adults. Last year, researchers from London showed that slow, gentle stroking by a stranger
    reduced feelings of social exclusion. As a society, we instinctively understand the power of touch.
    Caressing slows down hea' beats and blood pressure, gives people be-er control over their stress
    hormones. Being touched also increases the number of natural killer cells”.

    “You just don’t see people touching each other these days,” Ti*any Field, founder of the Touch
    Research Institute, complains. There is still no scienti)c data to connect declining touch to mobile
    technology or social media, but Field’s descriptions of people wrapped in their own worlds rather than
    each other, si-ing in isolation, are evocative and familiar.

    Excerpt from an a'icle by Paula Cocozza, The Guardian, March 7th 2018

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