Isolation & the Brain, 3

Other factors play into the impact of social isolation. These include an individual brain’s uniqueness. For example:

 ·       Sensory preference (60 percent of the general population is visual, 20 percent is auditory, and 20 percent is kinesthetic). Kinesthetics are very sensitive to touch and extremely discriminating about who they touch and by whom they are touched. They enjoy touch that they choose and reject touch that doesn’t “feel” right.

·       Familial and cultural imprinting influence how social isolation impacts the person, which is impacted on how much physical touch is familiar. Studies have found that Americans touch family and close friends once per hour when they are together. Brits tend to touch less than Americans or not at all. French and Italians touch family and close friends 100 times an hour.  

·       EAI preference, meaning whether they are extroverted, ambiverted, or introverted.

 

More tomorrow.