article_snippet: Those that grasped hands upon meeting then touched Those that grasped hands upon meeting faces and around Those that grasped hands upon meeting nose far more often afterwards compared to a greeting where there was no physical contact.
article_snippet: A British study has found that slapping palms together at head height passes on fewer than half as many germs as the traditional greeting.
article_snippet: For A British study, two Aberystwyth University researchers donned thick rubber gloves and one dipped his hand in a bacterial soup before shaking the other’s hand.
article_snippet: The number of bugs transmitted to the second glove was counted and the contact area measured.
article_snippet: Limp and damp handshakes are often seen as being an unattractive trait.
article_snippet: The scientists found that subjects who shook hands with people of the same sex sniffed The scientists right hand twice as much than if The scientists had not shaken hands.
article_snippet: When members of the opposite sex greeted, participants sniffed participants far less than before a handshake but tended to sniff participants left 'non-shaking' hand more often.
article_snippet: The participants in the study were filmed in a hospital, shown above) greeting researchers and were found to sniff their fingers and hands considerably more after shaking hands with the person their were meeting .
article_snippet: In general The participants in the study placed The participants in the study hand close to The participants in the study nose 22 per cent of the time after shaking hands for up to around 17 seconds at a time.
highlights_snippet: Participants touched Participants nose 22 per cent of the time after shaking hands .
  
highlights_snippet: Those of opposite sex right hands less after shaking hands .
  