In business, you may shake hands one or two times a day, but your computer makes hundreds if not thousands in the same time frame. Think of handshake protocol as a greeting. While your computer won't ...

Say the government outright forbids handshaking, on the theory that it needlessly risks spreading illness (illness that, whether for COVID-19 or for ordinary cold and flu, creates some risk of death ...

Handshaking is a key part of Michelle Ngome’s networking game as a marketing professional. Which is why Ngome, president of the African American Marketing Association and host of the “Networking With ...

I’ve never been especially fond of shaking hands. As a child, I rated it on the same level of personal disdain as being kissed by smothering, elderly aunts with the facial hair of a porcupine. I lay ...

You run into a friend you haven't seen since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic -- how do you greet them? Do you shake hands? Do you fist bump? Maybe an elbow bump?These days, people are ...

Evidence is mounting that alternatives to hand-to-hand contact between and among healthcare workers and sick people are necessary to curb the spread of infection. When patients visit Mark Schenkel, MD ...

Westerners view handshaking more positively than do East Asians, researchers report in a new study. Western men also rate handshakes initiated by men and women differently, the study found. Westerners ...

At the 40 or so seminars I give yearly, I always ask the same question. "Who here has ever received a bad handshake?" Invariably everyone raises their hands — no surprise there. Perhaps you’ve ...

Historians who have pored over old etiquette books have noticed that handshaking in the modern sense of a greeting doesn’t appear until the mid-19th century, when it was considered a slightly improper ...