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The Electricity of Touch: Detection and Measurement of Cardiac Energy Exchange Between People

    • Published: 1998 PR
    • Rollin McCraty, Ph.D., Mike Atkinson, Dana Tomasino, B.A., and William A. Tiller, Ph.D.
    • In: Karl H. Pribram, ed. Brain; Values: Is a Biological Science of Values Possible. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 1998: 359-379.
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Table of Contents:

  1. Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. Methods
  4. Experimental Examples
  5. Disucssion
  6. Future Discussions
  7. References

7. References

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