Heartwarming: How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human Ijzerman Hans Rocha
A hot cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa is calming and comforting--but how can holding a warm mug affect our emotions? In Heartwarming, social psychologist Hans Rocha IJzerman explores temperature through…
Specifikacia Heartwarming: How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human Ijzerman Hans Rocha
A hot cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa is calming and comforting--but how can holding a warm mug affect our emotions? In Heartwarming, social psychologist Hans Rocha IJzerman explores temperature through the long lens of evolution. Besides breathing, regulating body temperature is one of the most fundamental tasks for any animal. Like huddling penguins, we humans have long relied on one another to maintain our temperatures; over millennia, this instinct for thermoregulation has shaped our lives and culture.Temperature contributed to our evolution--our upright walking, our loss of fur, and our big brains--and now continues to affect our lives in unexpected ways, and the link from a warm mug to our emotions is anything but straightforward. Studies have shown, for example, that a chilly deliberation room can predispose a jury to convict and that a cold day can make us more