Keep it cool: temperature priming effect on cognitive control

Halali, Eliran; Meiran, Nachshon; Shalev, Idit

doi:10.1007/s00426-016-0753-6

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“…In another study (Ho et al, 2014b ), the results indicated that visual information can affect thermal discrimination RTs, but thermal cues did not influence color discrimination responses. Halali et al ( 2017 ) showed that cool compared to warm temperature priming (participants were primed using touch experience and by viewing pictures of landscapes) improved cognitive control performance, and such a temperature priming effect does not necessarily require a physical touch experience. Although more elaborate research is needed to confirm whether there is a bidirectional mechanism of visual processing and thermal sensation, it is also possible temperature stimulation influenced the processing of visual information (including but not necessarily limited to higher level semantic processing).…”

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“…Inagaki and Eisenberger ( 2013 ) showed that people feel more “connected” after holding a warm object and warmer after reading positive messages; and feelings of belonging were found to be threatened when people with low family support drink cold water (Chen et al, 2014 ). Moreover, the experience of cold temperatures even improves the performance of an anti-saccade task, as “cold behavior” is a concept used to describe rational and deliberate behavior (Halali et al, 2017 ).…”

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Perceptual-Semantic Congruency Facilitates Semantic Discrimination of Thermal Qualities

Zhou

Watanabe

2017

Front. Psychol.

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The ability to sense temperature is vital to our life. It signals the environmental condition, reflects the physiological conditions of our own body, and generates feelings of pleasantness or unpleasantness. Moreover, recent studies have demonstrated implicit associations between physical temperature and social/emotional concepts, suggesting the processing of temperature may even influence cognition. In this work, we examined the effect of physical warmth and coldness on semantic cognition. Participants performed speeded target categorization for thermal descriptors in the form of semantic words or illustrative figures representing the thermal qualities “warm” or “cold” while physical thermal stimulation was presented. We compared the average reaction time (RT) for the congruent and incongruent conditions managed by response key assignments. In the congruent condition, the response key for the symbol associated with warmth (coldness) was assigned to the hand with warm (cold) thermal stimulation, and in the incongruent condition the key assignment was reversed. Our results demonstrate that the average RT in the congruent condition was faster than in the incongruent one for both forms of thermal descriptors, suggesting that the experience of physical temperature facilitates the internal processing of the meaning of thermal quality.

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Perceptual-Semantic Congruency Facilitates Semantic Discrimination of Thermal Qualities

Zhou

Watanabe

2017

Front. Psychol.

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“…After answering a few demographic questions, participants were randomly assigned to one of the two manipulation conditions: heat versus control. In the heat manipulation condition, participants were asked to “recall a time when they felt uncomfortably hot.” To help participants in the recall task and consistent with prior studies using pictures to prime temperature, they were also provided with several pictures of people suffering from heat (e.g., Halali, Meiran, & Shalev, ; Wilkowski, Meier, Robinson, Carter, & Feltman, ). Participants were then asked to close their eyes and truly engage in the recall experience for 1 minute and then write down the details of the incident and the feelings associated with the heat in the space provided.…”

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Too hot to help! Exploring the impact of ambient temperature on helping

Belkin

Kouchaki

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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Building on the conservation of resources model, we conducted three studies to explore the link between ambient temperature and individual prosocial behavior. In study 1, analyzing the two‐wave field data from a chain of retail stores in Eastern Europe, we find that, in hot, as opposed to normal temperatures, employees are less likely to act in a prosocial manner. In study 2, we replicate and extend these findings in a randomized controlled experiment by identifying mechanisms underlying the relationship between hot ambient temperature and helping behavior. Specifically, we find that heat increases fatigue that leads to reduction in positive affect and subsequently reduces individual helping. Finally, in study 3, we replicate these findings in a field experiment. Taken together, our study helps to explain how and through what mechanisms ambient temperature influences individual helping. The theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed.

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“…Think of lab temperature. Although previous research has already indicated temperature to be of crucial importance to basic cognitive processes (e.g., Halali, Meiran, & Shalev, 2016;IJzerman & Semin, 2009;IJzerman & Hogerzeil, 2017), very few Stroop tasks have controlled for lab temperature in their design. With our conditional random forest approach, it becomes clearer and clearer how important temperature is for basic cognitive functioning (cf.…”

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What Predicts Stroop Performance? A Conditional Random Forest Approach

IJzerman

Pollet

Ebersole

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An experimental science relies on solid and replicable results. The last few years have seen a rich discussion on the reliability and validity of psychological science and whether our experimental findings can falsify our existing theoretical models. Yet, concerns have also arisen that this movement may impede new theoretical developments. In this article, we reanalyze the data from a crowdsourced replication project that concluded that lab site did not matter as predictor for Stroop performance, and, therefore, that there were no "hidden moderators" (i.e., context was likely to matter little in predicting the outcome of the Stroop task). The authors challenge this conclusion via a new analytical method-supervised machine learning -that "allows the data to speak." The authors apply this approach to the results from a Stroop task to illustrate the utility of machine learning and to propose moderators for future (confirmatory) testing. The authors discuss differences with some conclusions of the original article, which variables need to be controlled for in future inhibitory control tasks, and why psychologists can use machine learning to find surprising, yet solid, results in their own data. What Predicts Stroop Performance? A Conditional Random Forest ApproachAn experimental science relies on solid and replicable results. The last few years have seen a rich discussion on the reliability and validity of psychological science and whether our experimental findings can falsify our existing theoretical models (Coyne, 2016). Arguably, one of the most important events calling into question the solidity of psychological science was the publication on precognition by Daryl Bem (2011) followed by a paper on data contingent analyses by Simmons, Nelson, and Simonsohn (2011). Following these papers, the times, they have been a-changing: Extensive discussions have been held on power, replicability, pre-registration, and context sensitivity (Bakker, Hartgertink, Wicherts, & Van der Maas, in press;Brandt, IJzerman et al., 2014, Van Bavel, Mende-Siedlecki, Brady, & Reinero, 2016IJzerman et al., 2016). Though Bem's (2011) paper was perhaps the most prominent, problems seem to be widespread, and these problems are often blamed on the fact that novelty has been championed over solid and replicable findings (Coyne, 2016;Nosek, Spies, & Motyl, 2012). Yet, this begs the question: How can we retain creative and innovative exploration in service of finding out "truths" about human functioning? Currently, the most popular way to do so is to conduct an experiment, explore the data, write a paper, replicate this study, and, if it fails, update one's theoretical assumptions (and perhaps argue on social media for a while). This approach is incredibly sensitive to post hoc interpretation and is inefficient. Indeed, there are near infinite reasons why effects replicate or not and failures to replicate often do little to inform theoretical predictions (but, see Brandt, IJzerman, et al., 2014). A number of recent articles were publishe...

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Keep it cool: temperature priming effect on cognitive control

Cited by 22 publications

References 76 publications

Perceptual-Semantic Congruency Facilitates Semantic Discrimination of Thermal Qualities

Perceptual-Semantic Congruency Facilitates Semantic Discrimination of Thermal Qualities

Too hot to help! Exploring the impact of ambient temperature on helping

What Predicts Stroop Performance? A Conditional Random Forest Approach

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