First of all, let's decide what tactile sensations are. This is a form of sensitivity of the skin due to the work of two types of skin receptors: capsules, consisting of connective tissue cells, and plexuses of nerve endings that surround the hair follicles. These sensations are of a different nature - depending on what they are caused by: touch or pressure, vibration, the effect of texture or length.
A more common concept is “touch”, which is synonymous with the concept of “tactile sensations”. This is one of the five basic feelings that a healthy person has.
Touch is one of the first feelings that a person develops at birth. Psychologists have concluded that many of our abstract concepts "grow" precisely from these primary perceptions. With the help of American scientists who conducted a number of studies in this area, it was revealed that tactile sensations affect our condition and behavior. For example, a feeling of heaviness activates the idea of “importance”, “seriousness”, roughness is associated with difficulties and anxiety.
American scientists studying tactile sensations have conducted a number of interesting tests. For example, they asked passersby to evaluate the resume of one of the candidates for work, but the essence of the test was completely different. Some subjects received a resume on thin, pleasant-to-touch paper, while others received exactly the same resume in a heavy folder and got acquainted with it while standing. The results were such that subjects who received a “hard” resume described the candidate as a serious, experienced person. The subjects with "light" paper characterized the applicant as unreliable, but easy to communicate, enjoyable.
Another interesting test, saying that tactile sensations strongly affect our subconscious, was carried out with chairs. The subjects in hard and soft chairs had to bargain with the seller of the car. Those who felt the comfort of a soft chair became more compliant. Those who sat on a hard chair were adamant in price and traded more efficiently.
From these tests, we can conclude that our sensory organs, and especially touch, strongly influence our decision-making, thought process, and other brain activity. Psychologists, marketers, sales consultants, business trainers, and others who are closely associated with manipulation in their profession, are especially familiar with this.
Surely in the shops you noticed that it’s preferable and more reliable to touch any product before buying - this gives some information about it. Looking at the product is not always enough when receiving information. For this reason, self-service supermarkets are so popular.
In general, sensations are divided into several types. There is a certain classification of sensations: by the location of the receptors, by the leading analyzer, by the interaction of receptors and stimuli. Of course, there are other classifications, but this one is most popular.
Speaking about the types of human sensations, it is worth mentioning the distant ones (these include the sense of smell, hearing, and vision), contact ones (pain, taste, tactile sensations, vibrational, kinesthetic, etc.), deep ones (muscle, vestibular sensitivity, dizziness, etc.) .) In a person deprived of any kind of sensation, he is replaced by another by increasing sensitivity. So, for example, blind people have more developed hearing than healthy ones, and deaf-mute people develop their tactile perception. All types of sensations closely interact with each other and depend on each other.