Scratching is addictive, here's the evidence - RaiNews24

London, 09/05/2013

Into When we see a person who is scratching, take a strong impulse within us that causes us to do the same even in the absence of an explicit itching. This is shown by a new study from the School of Psychology of the University of Sussex and the Department of Psychology of the University of Hull.

The survey analyzed and reworked data from numerous studies on the suggestibility
and the impulse to scratch people who observe other people while they scratch. The results revealed that this activity is widespread and contagious with specific characteristics.

Into The study “scratching Contagious: shared feelings but not shared body locations”
published in ‘Frontiers’ shows that are inclined to emulate others, grattandoci in our turn, but we do it according to dynamics that reveal the mental matrix of behavior contagion. By analyzing the responses of a group of people to
watching movies that reflected individuals intent on scr atching in different parts of the body, the researchers found that participants tended to scratch but
mainly on the face and hair. This reveals that the infection does not affect all of the observed features but it takes only a few aspects from the perspective
emotional and directs them towards the head.