Although the server was unaware of the purpose of the experiment, however, was perfectly capable of

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You will remember the post a few weeks ago entitled "Being excluded from the others feel cold. Literally. " In that post we talked about a study that showed the two-way relationship between the experience of a cold interpersonal, induced by social, and physical cold. The latest issue of Science was published these days another research conducted elsewhere and by other researchers (Lawrence E. Williams and John A. Bargh of Colorado and Yale University) which confirms and relaunches, saying great source that the heat physical induced from taking a hot drink translates into a psychological and interpersonal warmth that we would not only judge others as the warmest, generous and pleasant, but it would change our own behavior in a more generous and selfless. You understand that two independent evidence so symmetrical suggest a reality. In research that we deal with today are also given neurobiological explanations of the link between body temperature and temperature psychological, identifying in 'insula part of the brain that processes the information is hot / cold body that the interpersonal. It also reaffirms the possible origin of the equation childhood great source physical heat / interpersonal warmth. I'll tell you briefly how the two studies great source were conducted because great source they are ingenious. In the first were recruited 41 subjects with a mean age of 18.5 years. Half of them held in his hand a cup of hot coffee and half a cup of cold coffee. To do this, a helper, unaware of the purpose of the study, holding the drink, two books and a laptop, he pretended to meet casually subjects great source in the atrium of the institute of psychology where there would be a next experiment and rose with them for four floors in the elevator. During the ride in the elevator asked participants to keep a second cup, while recording the participant's name and the time of its participation. After taking great source these notes has taken the coffee cup from the hands of individuals. Once at the laboratory, participants received a questionnaire in which he asked to express their impressions of a hypothetical person great source A described as intelligent, great source competent, great source industrious, determined, pragmatic and cautious. They were to judge it on the basis of 10 personality traits using a scale such as this we anchored: Generosa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Selfish (is an example, in the paper does not explain anchors nor on how many points is the scale). Half the personality traits were semantically related to size hot / cold, half do not relate to other dimensions. The results showed that people who had held for a few moments the hot drink perceived the target person as significantly warmer than those who had hand-held cold drink. The manipulation of the temperature of the coffee had no effect on personality traits rather not relati with the size of hot / cold. Of course the subjects had no awareness of the impact of physical experience on their judgments.
Although the server was unaware of the purpose of the experiment, however, was perfectly capable of understanding that was manipulating the variable of hot coffee and cold coffee and could in good faith treat differently the subjects during the elevator ride. In the second study was therefore attempted to eliminate this possible interference by manipulating the variable heating / cooling physical with one of those pillows for the hot-cold therapy great source that you can see here. These pillows were delivered to the participants for an alleged "product evaluation" and no researcher interacted with the subjects great source before the rest of the experiment was completed. The second study also aimed to investigate the impact of the body no longer on judgments, what behaviors. It 'was then asked subjects who had evaluated the effectiveness of the cushion to choose what they preferred as a reward for participating in the study: a Snapple juice or a voucher of $ 1