Feb. 14, 2006 ââ?¬â? – The power of hand-holding has long been enshrined in culture — from The Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” to the 1970 film, “Love Story,” to famous works of art.
Now a new study — to be published later this year in the journal Psychological Science — purports to show that holding hands can have real physiological benefits.
Dr. Richard Davidson — who runs a brain imaging lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — ran an ad in a local newspaper, recruiting 16 couples whom he identified as happily married.