Last year, the psychologists Lawrence Williams and John Bargh gave participants a cup of coffee to hold and showed that the temperature of the coffee affected the way those participants rated a stranger’s character. A hot coffee led them to rate him as more good natured and generous, whilst holding an iced coffee had the opposite effect. The finding was touted as an example of embodied cognition – the idea that the way we think about the world is grounded in, and affected by, physical metaphors. Now Hans Ijzerman and Gun Semin have built on this work, showing not only that the ambient temperature of a room affects how socially close people feel to another, but also the type of language they use and the way they see relations between shapes.
Fifty-two participants were shown an animated film featuring chess pieces. Crucially, half the participants were seated in a cool room (15 to 18 degrees Celsius) whereas the others sat in a warm room (22 to 24 degrees Celsius). Afterwards participants in the warm room used more concrete, physical language to describe the film and reported feeling socially closer to the experimenter than did the participants in a cold room.
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Depends. what type of person you are. I can be come extremely social when I have it cold … the upper social structure .. the other social structure .. down there .. will not work out that well anymore when getting older in certain types. Too warm rooms def. will not work so well social wise .. Warm rooms can give a nice comfortable cosy feeling, but does not necessarily lead to being more social (can be even the opposite, depends what types you are).
Warmth can lead to depressed feelings, whereas cold can give a lack of that depressed feelings.
But again ..depends what type of person you are. And we are not a constant something.
Temperature … it does control a bit more in our body than psychological stuff. Knowing yourself and know what will work for you and your body best. Sometimes being a bit harder on yourself can work wonderfully well. Depends what you aim for. Temperature can cure, but damage as well. In all areas.
But you will have to be a specific type of person to see it all like this, will have to have a constant monitor on. Otherwise it wont be something you will be busy with. Most people wont. The going up in yourself, and the down .. the lack of stuff all of a sudden, negativity/positive stuff. Becomes easier with age I guess. Can be usefull.
ploy i used to be fairly fond of was spiraling into a tale about how hot coffee actually cools you down by doing the hard work of keeping the body temp up. and conversely, how cool drinks might warm you.
So effectively that means that global warming will make us all like each other a little bit more?