MAIL ONLINE: Engineers in America create vibrating band to stop you touching your face amid the coronavirus pandemic

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Sir Cary Cooper, a professor of organisational psychology and health at the University of Manchester, said the device uses conditioning — a well-established technique to break bad habits — to teach us not to touch our faces.

Just as the message that it is socially unacceptable to stand any closer than two metres to others is conditioning us to change our behaviour when out and about, the vibrating alert is conditioning us to change our behaviour regarding touching our face, he says.

'You may still touch your face a few times. But the likelihood is that you will catch on that you shouldn't do it,' he adds.