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Dolcos, Florin Kim, Suhkyung 2015-01-21T19:55:14Z 2015-01-21T19:55:14Z 2017-01-22T10:15:40Z 2014-12 2015-01-21 2014-12 Non-verbal behaviors may facilitate effective social interactions, which are crucial aspects of human life. Among non-verbal behaviors, interpersonal touch has an important role in social interactions because of its emotional impact. However, it has remained ambiguous how ethnicity and sex differences affect the interpretation of interpersonal touch in observed social interactions. In the present study, the impact of ethnicity and sex differences on the positive effect of a particular form of interpersonal touch - the handshake - were investigated. Subjects from two ethnic groups, Caucasian and East Asian, were asked to watch and rate a series of video clips illustrating guest-host interactions, which were preceded or not by a handshake. Four ethnicity types and the sex were manipulated in the creation of host characters. Three main findings were identified. First, ethnicity and sex differences modulated the evaluation of the general outcome of social interaction. Second, participant’s ethnicity modulated the positive effect of the handshake in social evaluation. Third, culture-related sex differences, especially with respect to the hosts, modulated the positive effect of the handshake in social evaluation. These results indicate that ethnicity and sex differences modulate observer evaluation of the outcome of general social interaction and also the positive effect of interpersonal touch. Further investigations using fMRI may offer additional explanations of the role of ethnicity and sex differences during social evaluations at a neural level. Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin (lspradl2@illinois.edu) on 2014-10-30T16:45:41Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Master's Thesis_Suhkyung Kim.docx: 2351225 bytes, checksum: 22a13933b8e6bc54add13997e90bc989 (MD5) Kim_Suhkyung.pdf: 2692138 bytes, checksum: ff8c8c4f3163b1d3bf40595f5cda8907 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2015-01-21T19:55:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Suhkyung_Kim.pdf: 2692138 bytes, checksum: ff8c8c4f3163b1d3bf40595f5cda8907 (MD5) Master's Thesis_Suhkyung Kim.docx: 2351225 bytes, checksum: 22a13933b8e6bc54add13997e90bc989 (MD5) Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 73168 Lift date: 2017-01-21T19:56:18Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 73168 on 2017-01-22T10:15:40Z. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72979 en Copyright 2014 Suhkyung Kim Social interaction Emotion Evaluation Interpersonal Touch Handshake Ethnicity Sex Differences The role of ethnicity and gender in evaluating observed social interactions text Psychology 1299 Psychology 0338 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A. MA:Psychology -UIUC 10KS0338MA