New neuroscience research is confirming an old adage about the power of a
handshake: strangers do form a better impression of those who proffer
their hand in greeting.
A firm, friendly handshake has long been recommended in the business
world as a way to make a good first impression, and the greeting is
thought to date to ancient times as a way of showing a stranger you had
no weapons. Now, a paper published online and for the December print issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
on a study of the neural correlates of a handshake is giving insight
into just how important the practice is to the evaluations we make of
subsequent social interactions.
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