THE INFLUENCE OF HUGS AS A NONVERBAL FORM OF COMMUNICATION ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE OF A PERSON
The problem of changing the nature of communication in the modern world is quite acute. In the process of communication, people have a mutual verbal and nonverbal impact on each other. While the effect of verbal communication is almost always recognized by everyone at once, the importance of nonverbal forms is often underestimated. This article discusses two types of communication: verbal and nonverbal. Modern man began to avoid live communication, replacing it with virtual. However, some nonverbal forms of communication, such as hugs, are vital, and they cannot be implemented on the Internet Special attention is paid to nonverbal language of communication, namely hugs as one of its forms. The paper attempts to assess the impact of hugs on the psychological and emotional component of human health. The leading methods of the study were description, comparative analysis and experiment, the data of which were collected by means of questionnaires. As a result, the hypothesis about the positive impact of hugs on the psychological component of human health was confirmed.