A.S./peopleimages.com - stock.adobe.com Kiss your assumptions goodbye. You may think you know why humans enjoy smooching with one another, but a new study published this month has revealed the ...

Kissing in the rain might be a standard scene in a romcom, but when you think about it, locking lips is quite a strange thing for us humans to do. In a paper in the journal Evolutionary ...

The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans across civilisations and societies have shown affection, intimacy, or social bonding, most often in a way that is regulated by cultural conventions.

Kissing is one of the few natural human gestures that carries significant symbolism and social expectations. For over 4,500 years, cultural norms across civilizations have shaped how affection can ...

As Phys.org explained on October 26th, however, it’s important to note that kissing isn’t universal across human cultures. A 2015 study in the journal American Anthropologist cites that just ...

Kissing in humans evolved as a symbolic expression of love from grooming behaviours seen in ancestral great apes, a comprehensive new study says. The kiss has been a versatile way by which humans ...