Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth The importance of interpersonal warmth has been studied in several researches in social psychology. Interpersonal warmth has emerged as one of the components in forming first impression of the others and people tend to think that a “warm” person is more prosocial, cooperative, generous, and trusting whereas a “cold” person is more self-centered, competitive and untrustworthy (Bargh & Shalev, 2012). It is believed that social warmth is tightly connected to physical warmth and early childhood experiences is related to this as the caretakers who provide physical warmth usually help to develop psychological warmth to the children. Harry Harlow (1958) used the development and growth of
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The study 1 and 2 of Bargh and Shalev (2012) showed that chronic loneliness was correlated with a higher likelihood to get physical warmth through getting more frequent, warmer, and longer showers. It supported the hypothesis that people tends to compensate physical warmth for the lack of social warmth. In study 2, Bargh and Shalev (2012) showed that feelings of social coldness (loneliness) were increased by physical coldness. It appears that the social loneliness may be treated successfully from physical warmth, as physical and social warmth are substitutable to each other shown from these …show more content…
This questionnaire contains two parts to examine the lifestyle behaviours and attitudes of participants. The first part contains the six questions to evaluate the participants regarding their physical activities. For example, there are questions such as: “I am as physically fit as most people my age.” and “I participate in muscle-strengthening exercise at least several times a week.” This part is answered in 1-5 Likert scale (1=Strongly Disagree to 5=Strongly Agree). The second part contains five questions regarding their lifestyle habits, such as: “In the past 3 months, how often have you been involved in physical activity?” and “What temperature of the water that you use to bath/shower?” The questions in second part each has different scales respectively for participants to answer. For example, the first example question has eight scales from 1-N/A to 8-Everyday whereas the second example question contains seven scales from 1-Very cold water to 7-Very hot temperature. This questionnaire does not involve in the hypothesis and act as a cover for the necessary deception of the
The study 1 and 2 of Bargh and Shalev (2012) showed that chronic loneliness was correlated with a higher likelihood to get physical warmth through getting more frequent, warmer, and longer showers. It supported the hypothesis that people tends to compensate physical warmth for the lack of social warmth. In study 2, Bargh and Shalev (2012) showed that feelings of social coldness (loneliness) were increased by physical coldness. It appears that the social loneliness may be treated successfully from physical warmth, as physical and social warmth are substitutable to each other shown from these …show more content…
This questionnaire contains two parts to examine the lifestyle behaviours and attitudes of participants. The first part contains the six questions to evaluate the participants regarding their physical activities. For example, there are questions such as: “I am as physically fit as most people my age.” and “I participate in muscle-strengthening exercise at least several times a week.” This part is answered in 1-5 Likert scale (1=Strongly Disagree to 5=Strongly Agree). The second part contains five questions regarding their lifestyle habits, such as: “In the past 3 months, how often have you been involved in physical activity?” and “What temperature of the water that you use to bath/shower?” The questions in second part each has different scales respectively for participants to answer. For example, the first example question has eight scales from 1-N/A to 8-Everyday whereas the second example question contains seven scales from 1-Very cold water to 7-Very hot temperature. This questionnaire does not involve in the hypothesis and act as a cover for the necessary deception of the