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Brits Doing Away With Handshake
Researchers point out that online social networking has left fewer opportunities for people to come face-to-face and shake hands.
The handshake, which evolved in medieval times, to let knights to show they were unarmed, is thought to be too formal for younger adults.
A survey of 1,000 adults by Carex, a hand-wash brand, revealed that the custom of shaking hands is fading with each generation with 74percent confessing they shake hands less than they used to.
It was found that almost 69percent of the people aged above 25 still shake hands to meet and greet while only 45percent of under-25s do the same.
"In our evolutionary past, touch was the foundation of families and civilised coexistence, helping to reduce stress, violence and dissent," the Scotsman quoted Dr David Holmes of Manchester Metropolitan University, who conducted the research, as saying.
"It is one of the most powerful forms of public touch that can be used in society today and it can leave a lasting impression on those touched," he added.
"The handshake dying out can only be seen as a loss, particularly among the young, if you are certain it was something we did before," Professor Patrick O'Donnell of the department of psychology at the University of Glasgow, said.
He added: "In the UK we have always been rather awkward and physically distant about this sort of thing and in Scotland many regarded it as definitely 'not on'.
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