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We do know it’s likely you’ve been pawing at your face since before you were even born. The well-established fact that fetuses will, in utero, touch their fetal hands to fetal faces has led to ...

The advice seems simple: Don’t touch your face, as a way to try to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. Easier said than done. “It’s futile,” said psychologist Kevin Chapman, the director of the ...

Humans touch their own faces often because they are subconsciously smelling themselves for a variety of reasons, scientists believe. The team also conducted a survey to see whether people ...