Horace Gold influence on The Naked Sun?

Having just reread The Naked Sun (one of my two favorite Asimov novels,
along with The Caves of Steel), I was struck by the similarity of the
Solarians' aversion to personal contact ("seeing") and an incident Asimov
describes in one or more of his autobiographical writings. He went to visit
Horace Gold (possibly someone else, but I think it was Gold), and in the
middle of a conversation Gold suddenly left the room. Asimov wondered if
he'd done something to offend him, but after a while Gold called him on the
phone, from the bedroom -- or something like that. Maybe it was that Gold's
wife came in and said Horace had difficulty with face-to-face meetings, and
had just had enough.
When I read The Naked Sun for the first time I didn't know about this
incident, but this time it really struck me that Asimov might well have
based that crucial detail of the Solarian psychology on Horace Gold --
which, if true, means Gold was a major influence on it, as well as The Caves
of Steel. Maybe this is common knowledge among some Asimov aficionados, but
I thought I'd mention it anyway.

-- Bob G.