Handshake

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A handshake is a short ritual in which two people hold hands with each other, in many cases accompanied by a short up and down motion of a hand held.

Using the right hand is generally regarded as the right etiquette. Customs around the handshake specifically for the culture. Different cultures may be more or less likely to shake hands, or there may be different habits of how or when to shake hands.

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History

Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking - also known as dexiosis - was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th century BC; the portrayal of two handshakes soldiers can be found on the part of the 5th century BC cemetery inscription exhibited at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin (inscription SK1708) and other burial steles like one of the 4th century BC depicting Thraseas and his wife. Euandria handshaking (see picture on right). Handshake is believed by some to come as a peace movement by showing that the hand does not hold a weapon.

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Modern custom

There are various habits around the handshake, both in general and specific to a particular culture:

The handshake is generally done when meeting, greeting, parting, congratulating, thanking you, or completing the deal. In sports or other competitive activities, it is also done as a sign of good sportsmanship. The goal is to convey trust, respect, balance, and equality. If it is done to form a deal, the agreement is not official until the hand is divided.

Unless health problems or local customs dictate otherwise, handshakes are usually made with bare hands. However, it depends on the situation.

• In Anglophone countries, handshaking is common in business situations. In ordinary non-business situations, men are more likely to shake hands than women.
• In the Netherlands and Belgium, handshakes are more frequent, especially at meetings.
• In Switzerland, it may be expected to shake a woman's hand first.
• Austrians shake hands at meetings, often including children.
• In Russia, handshakes are performed by men and rarely done by women.
• In some countries like Turkey or Middle East who speak Arabic, handshakes are not as tight in the West. As a result, a grip that is too harsh will be considered rude. Trembling hands between men and women are not encouraged in the Arab world.
• Moroccans also give one kiss on each cheek (for the appropriate sex) along with a handshake. Also, in some countries, variations are where not kisses, after the handshake palms are placed in the heart.
• In China, where weak handshakes are also favored, people shake hands often hold each other's hands for a long period of time after the initial handshake.
• In Japan, it is appropriate to let the Japanese start a handshake, and a weak handshake is preferred.
• In India and nearby countries, Namaste's respectable attitude, sometimes combined with a little bow, has traditionally been used as a handshake. However, handshakes are preferred in business and other formal arrangements.
• In Norway, where strong handshakes are preferred, people will often shake hands when approving transactions, both in personal and business relationships.
• In South Korea, senior people will start handshakes, which are preferably weak. This is a sign of respect for holding the right arm with the left hand while shaking hands. Also be considered rude or disrespectful to have your hands free in your pocket while shaking hands.
• Associated with the handshake but more relaxed, some people prefer fist. Usually a boxing lump is done with a fisted hand. Only knuckles are usually touched on the knuckles of others' hands. Like a handshake, a boxing bump can be used to acknowledge a relationship with another person. However, unlike the formalities of handshakes, fist fists are usually not used for sealing business transactions or in formal business arrangements.
• Hands are the kind of handshakes popular among politicians, because they can present them as warm, friendly, trustworthy, and honest. This type of handshake covers covering the clenched hands with the remaining free hands, creating a kind of "cocoon".
• Another popular version among politicians is the "photo-op shoot" where, after the initial grasp, the two individuals switch to face the current camera photographer and camera man for a few seconds.
• The Scouts will shake hands with their left hands as a sign of trust, originating when the founder of the movement, Lord Baden-Powell of Gillwell, then a British cavalry officer, meets an African tribe.
• In some parts of Africa, handshakes are held to show that a conversation is in between. If they do not shake hands, others are allowed to enter the conversation.
• The Masai men in Africa greet each other with a delicate touch of their palms for a very short time.
• In Liberia, snap shots are common, in which the two shakers snap their fingers at each other at the end of a handshake.
• Secret-handshakes have been developed in many north-american sports teams where each player on the team will have variations for each of his teammates. Some Teachers have used this personalized technique to welcome every student to their class for the day. The term comes from organizations that are rumored as Brotherhood or Secret-Societies to validate the claims of foreigners who claim to be fraternities.

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Germs spread

Handshakes are known to spread a number of pathogenic microbes. Certain diseases such as scabies are known to spread most directly through direct skin-to-skin contact. A medical study found that boxy clumps and high five spread fewer germs than a handshake.

In light of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, dean of medicine at the University of Calgary, Tomas Feasby, suggests that boxy blobs may be "a good substitute of a handshake" in an effort to prevent transmission of the virus.

After a 2010 study showing that only about 40% of physicians and other health care providers adhere to the hand hygiene rules of the hospital, Mark Sklansky, a doctor at UCLA hospital, decided to test the "handshake free zone" as a method to limit the spread of germs and reduce disease transmission. However, UCLA does not permit the direct handshake ban, but they prefer to suggest other options such as boxing, smile movements, bending, waving, and non-contact Namaste.

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Chemosignaling

It has been found as part of research at the Weizmann Institute, that human handshake serves as a means of transferring social chemical signals between shakers. There seems to be a tendency to bring a shaken hand around the nose and kiss it. They may serve the evolutionary need to learn about people whose hands are shaken, replacing the more outspoken sniffing behavior, as is common among animals and in certain human cultures (such as Tuvalu, Greenland or Mongolian countryside, where fast sniffs are part of the ritual traditional greeting).

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World Records

Atlantic City, New Jersey Mayor Joseph Lazarow was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records for the July 1977 publicity action, in which the mayor held more than 11,000 hands in a single day, breaking the previously held record. by President Theodore Roosevelt, who had made a record of 8,510 handshakes at the reception of the White House on 1 January 1907. This was solved, in 1963, by Lance Dowson in Wrexham, N. Wales who shook 12,500 individuals in the hands of 10 1/2 hour. It was recognized by the Guinness World Record Organization and published in their 1964 publication. WSAI DJ Jim Scott broke the record at Northgate Mall, Cincinnati, Oh. On 31 August 1987 Stephen Potter of the St Albans Round Table shook 19,550 hands at St Albans Carnival to set a world record for shaking many hands verified by the Guinness Book of records. The record has been exceeded but has retired from the book. Stephen Potter still holds the British and European record.

On August 15, 2008, Kirk Williamson and Richard McCulley broke the Guinness Book World Records for the World's Longest Handshake (one hand) when they met at the Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii and shook hands for 10 hours with a previous record of 9 hours and 19 minute set in 2006 On September 21, 2009, Jack Tsonis and Lindsay Morrison then broke the record by shaking hands for 12 hours, 34 minutes and 56 seconds. Their record was broken less than a month later in Claremont, California, when John-Clark Levin and George Posner shook hands for 15 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds. The next month, on November 21, Matthew Rosen and Joe Ackerman outperformed this achievement, with a new world record of 15 hours, 30 minutes and 45 seconds being certified in the latest edition of the Guinness Book of Records on page 111. At 8 pm. EST on Friday 14th January 2011 the last attempt at the longest rocking started in New York Times Square and the existing record was destroyed by the semi-professional world record breaking Alastair Galpin and Don Purdon of New Zealand and Nepit brothers Rohit and Santosh Timilsina who agreed to share the record only after 33 hours and 3 minutes.

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See also

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References

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External links

• Media related to Handshake in Wikimedia Commons
• Definition of dictionary from handshake in Wiktionary
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