Homely Thermoregulation: How Physical Coldness Makes an Advertised House a Home

Acker, Bram Van; Kerselaers, Kayleigh; Pantophlet, Jennifer; IJzerman, Hans

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“…The ability to gage resources could be something that we have referred earlier to as the “weather report.” And indeed, there are a number of reports that show the link between the “weather report” (i.e., the gage of resources) and close relations: Primes of social/physical similarity (vs. social/physical distance and exclusion) lead people to estimate temperature as higher, whether this is about the relationship ( Zhong and Leonardelli, 2008 ; IJzerman and Semin, 2010 ), the self/other ( Szymkow et al, 2013 ), or consumer products ( IJzerman et al, 2014 ). IJzerman et al (2014) even find that temperature cues are causally implicated in the willingness to purchase the consumer products that make them feel warmer (for comparable findings, see Van Acker et al, 2015 ).…”

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A theory of social thermoregulation in human primates

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Beyond breathing, the regulation of body temperature—thermoregulation—is one of the most pressing concerns for many animals. A dysregulated body temperature has dire consequences for survival and development. Despite the high frequency of social thermoregulation occurring across many species, little is known about the role of social thermoregulation in human (social) psychological functioning. We outline a theory of social thermoregulation and reconsider earlier research on people’s expectations of their social world (i.e., attachment) and their prediction of the social world. We provide support and outline a research agenda that includes consequences for individual variation in self-regulatory strategies and capabilities. In our paper, we discuss physiological, neural, and social processes surrounding thermoregulation. Emphasizing social thermoregulation in particular, we appeal to the economy of action principle and the hierarchical organization of human thermoregulatory systems. We close with future directions of a crucial aspect of human functioning: the social regulation of body temperature.

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A theory of social thermoregulation in human primates

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“…And indeed, there are a number of reports that show the link between the "weather report" (i.e., the gage of resources) and close relations: Primes of social/physical similarity (vs. social/physical distance and exclusion) lead people to estimate temperature as higher, whether this is about the relationship (Zhong and Leonardelli, 2008;IJzerman and Semin, 2010), the self/other (Szymkow et al, 2013), or consumer products . IJzerman et al (2014) even find that temperature cues are causally implicated in the willingness to purchase the consumer products that make them feel warmer (for comparable findings, see Van Acker et al, 2015).…”

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“…In addition, among PTSD patients, loneliness has been found to positively relate to a preference for warm foods (Li and Liao, 2013). Finally, in colder conditions people self-regulate through socially warm experiences: Nostalgia is triggered by coldness (Zhou et al, 2012;Sedikides et al, 2014), people seek socially warm experiences when they are cold (Zhang and Risen, 2014), and they judge houses to be more homely when they are colder (Van Acker et al, 2015; for a review, see Raison et al, 2015). There is even some preliminary support that skin temperature is responsive to someone else's stress (Vuorenkoski et al, 1969;Wagemans et al, 2014), which we think serves in social emotion regulation.…”

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A Theory of Social Thermoregulation in Human Primates

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Beyond breathing, the regulation of body temperature-thermoregulation-is one of the most pressing concerns for many animals. A dysregulated body temperature has dire consequences for survival and development. Despite the high frequency of social thermoregulation occurring across many species, little is known about the role of social thermoregulation in human (social) psychological functioning. We outline a theory of social thermoregulation and reconsider earlier research on people's expectations of their social world (i.e., attachment) and their prediction of the social world. We provide support and outline a research agenda that includes consequences for individual variation in self-regulatory strategies and capabilities. In our paper, we discuss physiological, neural, and social processes surrounding thermoregulation. Emphasizing social thermoregulation in particular, we appeal to the economy of action principle and the hierarchical organization of human thermoregulatory systems. We close with future directions of a crucial aspect of human functioning: the social regulation of body temperature.

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“…The increase in overlap was interpreted as a greater sense of social proximity between a given participant and a target individual. More broadly, warmer temperature experiences have been associated with a host of different behaviours, with IJzerman and colleagues suggesting in a recent review (IJzerman et al, 2015) that people may self-regulate against physically colder experiences by seeking socially warmer experiences, such as demonstrating an interest in romance movies (Hong & Sun, 2012), showing feelings of nostalgia (Sedikides et al, 2014), or demonstrating a greater need for affiliation (Van Acker et al, 2015).…”

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“…However, transient tactile experience of temperature and prolonged environmental exposure to warmth or cold are very different bodily experiences, and so they should also be distinguished theoretically (e.g., IJzerman et al, 2015). Williams (2008) makes explicit the TEMPERATURE AND PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOUR 7 possible difference between the two types of experience and suggests that from the metaphor/social priming perspective "ambient temperature priming should not impact people's feelings of psychological warmth, because when developing the concept of psychological warmth, ambient temperatures do not matter; physical contact with caring, warming human beings matters."…”

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The Effect of Haptic and Ambient Temperature Experience on Prosocial Behavior

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Research in social embodied cognition has found numerous positive associations between higher temperatures and prosocial behavior, with “warmer is better” effects demonstrating greater altruism, social proximity, and affective attributions. However, recent failures to replicate experimental findings in this area have called some effects into question. By contrast, epidemiological research has frequently observed that higher ambient temperatures are correlated with increases in societal volatility and antisocial behaviors, with “warmer is worse” effects demonstrated by increases in warfare, city-center rioting, and sporting aggression. Using a sample size (N = 611) larger than many previous studies in the social priming domain, we examined whether higher ambient temperature and/or higher prop temperature (i.e., holding a hot/cold therapeutic pack) lead to more prosocial behavior. Results showed that warmer ambient temperatures were weakly associated with more prosocial than selfish choices. However, calculation of Bayes Factors suggests that the evidence is better characterized as inconclusive. As previously published analyses of the same data set used in this study show (Lynott et al., 2014), prop temperature did not lead to increased prosocial responding, which fails to support predictions from particular accounts of social embodiment. We discuss possible reasons for the inconclusive findings and for the broad range of effect sizes observed more generally in the literature.

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Homely Thermoregulation: How Physical Coldness Makes an Advertised House a Home

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

A theory of social thermoregulation in human primates

A theory of social thermoregulation in human primates

A Theory of Social Thermoregulation in Human Primates

The Effect of Haptic and Ambient Temperature Experience on Prosocial Behavior

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