Haptic communication playing at a playground. It was noted that French women touched their children more often than the American parents. Heslin outlines five haptic categories: The intent of a touch is not always exclusive and touching can evolve to each one of Heslin’s categories. Managers should know the effectiveness of using touch while communicating to subordinates, but need to be cautious and understand how touch can be misunderstood. A hand on the shoulder for one person may mean a supportive gesture, while it could mean a sexual advance to another person. Working with others and using touch to communicate, a manager
Mystery of the Senses to be delivered in clumps that are hard to absorb". Ken Ringle of "The Washington Post" was not impressed, and described the series as "distracted, disorganized, frequently trivial and irritatingly self-indulgent". He went on to say that "instead of exploring our senses' role in the natural world", the programs "tends to celebrate instead the way corporations seduce them artificially for profit". Despite the mostly unfavorable review, Ringle did concede that "some moments in the series are pure gold". Mystery of the Senses Mystery of the Senses is a five-part "Nova" miniseries, based on the book "A Natural History of the