Regional ambient temperature is associated with human personality

Wei, Wüchang; Lu, Jackson G.; Galinsky, Adam D.; Wu, Han; Gosling, Samuel D.; Rentfrow, Peter J.; Yuan, Wenjie; Zhang, Qi; Guo, Yongyu; Zhang, Ming; Gui, Wenjing; Guo, Xiaoyi; Potter, Jeff; Wang, Jian; Li, Bingtan; Li, Xiaojie; Han, Yang-Mei; Lv, Meizhen; Guo, Xiang-Qing; Choe, Yera; Lin, Weipeng; Yu, Kun; Bai, Qiyu; Shang, Zhe; Han, Ying; Wang, Lei

doi:10.1038/s41562-017-0240-0

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“…And temperature has been linked to personality differences. More clement climates (closer to 22 degrees Celsius), for example, are linked to greater conscientiousness, greater openness to experience, greater extraversion, greater agreeableness, and less neuroticism (Wei et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature

IJzerman

Lindenberg

Dalğar

et al. 2018

Collabra: Psychology

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Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N = 1755) designed to test the principles from this theory, we used supervised machine learning to identify social and non-social factors that relate to core body temperature. This data-driven analysis found that complex social integration (CSI), defined as the number of high-contact roles one engages in, is a critical predictor of core body temperature. We further used a cross-validation approach to show that colder climates relate to higher levels of CSI, which in turn relates to higher CBT (when climates get colder). These results suggest that despite modern affordances for regulating body temperature, people still rely on social warmth to buffer their bodies against the cold.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature

IJzerman

Lindenberg

Dalğar

et al. 2018

Collabra: Psychology

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“…Ever since the ancient Greeks started to address the climate‐culture conundrum, great thinkers have speculated about the link between thermal climate and local human functioning including conflict culture (for overviews, see Feldman, ; Parker, ; Sommers & Moos, ). Recently, a growing number of scholars have begun to turn these speculations into knowledge (Carleton & Hsiang, ; Van de Vliert, , ; Van Lange et al., ; Wei et al., ). As implied by its theoretical and empirical contexts, the reported study is not simply an extension of that recent trend but attempts to redirect and accelerate the ongoing work by placing both the ecological stressors and conflict culture in a farther‐back geographic context.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Colder winters and hotter summers are more stressful as they require more and better clothing, shelter structures, warming or cooling systems, and increasing investments of time and effort in the pursuit of water, food, and health. Nowadays, such thermal stress is assessed with a thermometer for livability that uses 22 °C (~72 °F) as a point of reference for minimal stress (Van de Vliert, ; Wei et al., ). Accordingly, thermal stress is measured as the mean deviation from 22 °C in centigrade for the average (a) lowest temperature in the coldest month, (b) highest temperature in the coldest month, (c) lowest temperature in the hottest month, and (d) highest temperature in the hottest month.…”

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confidence: 99%

Northerners and Southerners Differ in Conflict Culture

Vliert

Conway

2018

Negotiation Conflict Man Res

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The present study uses regression analysis of existing cross‐national data sets to demonstrate that ingroup–outgroup discrimination and intergroup conflict management vary more along the north–south (latitudinal) axis than along the east–west axis of the Earth. Ingroup favoritism, outgroup rejection, political oppression, legal discrimination, and communication bullying are all less prevalent among Northerners than among Southerners in the Northern Hemisphere, but more prevalent among Northerners than among Southerners in the Southern Hemisphere. These findings provide a rich source for further research into how social conflicts are habitually experienced and handled by residents of northern versus southern habitats. A supplementary analysis specifies the extent to which ecological stressors—thermal stress, hydraulic stress, pathogenic stress, and subsistence stress—help explain why there are oppositely sloping north–south gradients of conflict culture above and below the equator. Taken in total, these results demonstrate the importance of considering latitude in forming a deeper understanding of conflict management and negotiation.

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“…Cross‐national studies have revealed that climatic demands (i.e., climates that are colder than temperate and hotter than temperate) jointly with country wealth affect health outcomes (Van de Vliert, ). Single country regional variation studies also have verified the effect of climatic demands on mood, collectivism, and even personality (Wei et al., ). Analyzing data from 58 nations, Fischer and Van de Vliert () found that climatic demands negatively influenced general evaluations of life satisfaction and subjective well‐being.…”

Section: Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation Of Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…In support of this perspective, people's affect, behavior, and cognition are often systematically linked to their ecocultural settings, particularly the cultural context (Oishi, ). However, although climatic conditions undoubtedly are part of individuals’ ecocultural environment, it has been only in recent years that their effects on human behavior have started to receive attention (Fischer & Van de Vliert, ; Wei et al., ). This extant research has nevertheless been limited to the psychological impact of climate at in situ ontexts.…”

Section: Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation Of Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climatic effects on the sociocultural and psychological adaptation of migrants within China: A longitudinal test of two competing perspectives

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Kunst

Sam

2019

Asian J of Social Psycho

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Little is known about how climatic differences may psychologically impact individuals who migrate from one geographical area to another. A climatic demand theory perspective suggests that migration from more demanding climatic areas to less demanding climatic areas would lead to better psychological outcomes while predicting the opposite for migration from less demanding to more demanding climates. In contrast, a climatic-fit perspective would predict that moving to areas that climatically are similar to one's home would lead to the best psychological outcomes whereas any major deviation would lead to worse outcomes. To test these competing perspectives, a longitudinal, multisite study was conducted with over 1,000 student migrants who moved from various areas in China to 12 cities. Participants' life satisfaction and perceived stress were assessed upon arrival and at the end of the semester together with their sociocultural adaptation. Supporting the climatic-fit perspective, multilevel analyses showed that participants reported the least stress and highest sociocultural adaptation when they migrated to host sites that were climatically similar to their homes. Conversely, individuals who migrated from very demanding to less demanding climatic regions and vice versa reported an increase in stress and lower sociocultural adaptation.

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Regional ambient temperature is associated with human personality

Cited by 104 publications

References 31 publications

The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature

The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature

Northerners and Southerners Differ in Conflict Culture

Climatic effects on the sociocultural and psychological adaptation of migrants within China: A longitudinal test of two competing perspectives

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