Studies on the role of gender in touching have shown that:
a. women always enjoy being touched
b. people are much more likely to touch members of the same sex than members of the opposite sex
c. men generally like being touched by a stranger of the opposite sex
d. women have been observed to touch men more than men touch women
e. women are more likely than men to read sexual connotations in touches
Ans: c
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