The scientific guide to where people do not liked to be touched

Physical touch can strengthen our emotional bonds with other people, but it's easy to cross the line and come off as a touchy-feely creep.

Luckily, a new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has defined our unspoken social conventions.

The study surveyed 1,368 people and found that the closer a person feels to someone, the more likely they'd feel comfortable being touched on a larger area of their bodies.

Scroll down to see where and by whom the respondents drew the lines - quite literally - of a touch being OK or downright weird.