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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

At the 40 or so seminars I give yearly, I always ask the same question. "Who here has ever received a bad handshake?" Invariably everyone raises their hands — no surprise there. Perhaps you’ve ...

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 ...