Michael J Banissy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5448928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Banissy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Banissy |
| SIGNATURE | BANISSY M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6609-8651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch
Attitudes and experiences of touch vary considerably between individuals and also shift in response to societal change. This preregistered study examined predictors of inter-individual variability in touch attitudes and experiences in a large and diverse UK healthy adult sample (N = 15,166). Trait extraversion was the strongest predictor of day-to-day social touch attitudes (e.g., handshakes), where greater extraversion predicted more positive at…
The meaning of touch
Touch is a key channel for conveying meaning in social interactions. The affective quality of touch and its effects on well‐being are shaped by relational context (relationship between touch giver vs. recipient) and person variables (e.g. adult attachment style). Yet, such effects have not been explored in relation to the meaning ascribed to touch. We used data from the Touch Test, the world's largest touch survey, which included questions on the…
ASMR‐Experience Questionnaire (AEQ)
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) describes an atypical multisensory experience of calming, tingling sensations that originate in the crown of the head in response to a specific subset of audio‐visual triggers. There is currently no tool that can accurately classify both ASMR‐Responders and non‐responders, while simultaneously identifying False‐Positive cases that are similar sensory‐emotional experiences. This study sought to fill this…
The influence of duration, arm crossing style, gender, and emotional closeness on hugging behaviour
Hugging is one of the most common types of affective touch encountered in everyday life. However, little is known about the factors that influence hugging evaluation and behaviour. Here, we aimed to assess how different hugs would be evaluated and whether they can affect mood. Furthermore, we aimed to investigate what kind of arm crossing is common in a naturalistic setting and whether arm crossing style could be predicted from gender, emotional …
Emotion expression modulates perception of animacy from faces
Discriminating real human faces from artificial can be achieved quickly and accurately by face-processing networks, but less is known about what stimulus qualities or interindividual differences in the perceiver might influence whether a face is perceived as being alive. In the present studies, morphed stimuli differing in levels of animacy were created. Participants made judgements about whether the face appeared animate at different levels alon…
The Rhythm Span Task
The study introduces a rhythm memory task and compares performance of musicians and non-musicians. The rhythm span task with increasing and decreasing sequence length according to the participants’ performance, measures the individual memory capacity for musical rhythms. Results show that musicians perform significantly better on the rhythm span task indicating that memory capacity for rhythms is superior after many years of formal musical traini…
“That’s not a real body”
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“That’s not a real body”
The Rhythm Span Task
The study introduces a rhythm memory task and compares performance of musicians and non-musicians. The rhythm span task with increasing and decreasing sequence length according to the participants’ performance, measures the individual memory capacity for musical rhythms. Results show that musicians perform significantly better on the rhythm span task indicating that memory capacity for rhythms is superior after many years of formal musical traini…
Emotion expression modulates perception of animacy from faces
Discriminating real human faces from artificial can be achieved quickly and accurately by face-processing networks, but less is known about what stimulus qualities or interindividual differences in the perceiver might influence whether a face is perceived as being alive. In the present studies, morphed stimuli differing in levels of animacy were created. Participants made judgements about whether the face appeared animate at different levels alon…
The influence of duration, arm crossing style, gender, and emotional closeness on hugging behaviour
Hugging is one of the most common types of affective touch encountered in everyday life. However, little is known about the factors that influence hugging evaluation and behaviour. Here, we aimed to assess how different hugs would be evaluated and whether they can affect mood. Furthermore, we aimed to investigate what kind of arm crossing is common in a naturalistic setting and whether arm crossing style could be predicted from gender, emotional …
ASMR‐Experience Questionnaire (AEQ)
Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) describes an atypical multisensory experience of calming, tingling sensations that originate in the crown of the head in response to a specific subset of audio‐visual triggers. There is currently no tool that can accurately classify both ASMR‐Responders and non‐responders, while simultaneously identifying False‐Positive cases that are similar sensory‐emotional experiences. This study sought to fill this…
Extraversion and adult attachment dimensions predict attitudes towards social touch
Attitudes and experiences of touch vary considerably between individuals and also shift in response to societal change. This preregistered study examined predictors of inter-individual variability in touch attitudes and experiences in a large and diverse UK healthy adult sample (N = 15,166). Trait extraversion was the strongest predictor of day-to-day social touch attitudes (e.g., handshakes), where greater extraversion predicted more positive at…
The meaning of touch
Touch is a key channel for conveying meaning in social interactions. The affective quality of touch and its effects on well‐being are shaped by relational context (relationship between touch giver vs. recipient) and person variables (e.g. adult attachment style). Yet, such effects have not been explored in relation to the meaning ascribed to touch. We used data from the Touch Test, the world's largest touch survey, which included questions on the…
Psychology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (3 works) · Arousal (2 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works)