Chapell M, Basso E, DeCola A, Hossack J, Keebler J, Marm J, Reed B, Webster E, Yoggev D
Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
Percept Mot Skills. 1998 Aug;87(1):127-30. doi: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.1.127.
This study explored the issue of whether status and power differences are expressed in the way men and women hold hands. It was hypothesized that men's hands would be upper in heterosexual handholding couples significantly more often than women's. Also, to explore the possibility that height differences of handholding partners might affect handholding position, all handholding couples observed in this study were classified as couples with men and women of equal height or couples where either the men or women were taller. A total of 1,006 handholing couples were observed, and men's hands were significantly more likely to be the upper one in couples when men were taller than women and in couples where men and women were of equal height, suggesting that, while height does matter, it is less important for this handholding pattern than sex differences.
本研究探讨了地位和权力差异是否会以男女牵手方式表现出来这一问题。研究假设，在异性牵手情侣中，男性的手处于上方的情况会比女性显著更频繁。此外，为了探究牵手伴侣身高差异可能影响牵手姿势的可能性，本研究中观察到的所有牵手情侣被分为男女身高相等的情侣或男性或女性更高的情侣。总共观察了1006对牵手情侣，在男性比女性高的情侣以及男女身高相等的情侣中，男性的手显著更有可能处于上方，这表明虽然身高确实有影响，但对于这种牵手模式而言，它不如性别差异重要。
