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 ...

Handshaking, as a form of greeting, has been around in some form as long as humans have existed. The warm, reassuring tactile touch that we as social animals share is essential for social ...

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.

If you worry about first impressions when you land in the U.S., take note: people from the West have a more positive view of handshaking than East Asians, a new study shows. Researchers from the ...

Handshaking evolved to communicate by checking others’ odors Researchers find that a handshake alone is sufficient for the transfer of several odors known to serve as meaningful chemical signals ...