Feb
4
Hugging reveals the importance of 3-second units of time to humans
The comfortable duration for a hug turns out to be three seconds. This has been confirmed by analysis of TV coverage of Olympic athletes hugging. They hug opponents for a bit less and their coaches a bit more but the average is three seconds.
It seems there’s something fundamental about this duration with lots of activities divided into three second units, waving goodbye, infants’ babbling bouts and even musical phrases all tend towards a 3 second duration.
We seem to be living with a resonance of 0.333Hz.
