Do Physical Warmth Affect One’s Interpersonal Judgements?
In nowadays, people tend to be more selfish and only care about themselves due to social norm. Indeed, people also think that others are also having the same minded as them. Why people have feelings of social coldness in nowadays? It is because of the weather or the environment become cooler?
From the past, a lot of studies have examined that experiences of physical warmth could induce feelings of social warmth of people. People regulate their feelings of social warmth themselves through applications of physical warmth but they do not aware of the relationship between physical and social warmth (Bargh & Shalev, 2012). According to Bargh and Shalev (2012) study, social and physical warmth are substitutable every day and the substitution is an unconscious self-regulatory mechanism. People definitely not aware of the link between social and physical warmth as they do not realise that person who bathes frequently to be lonelier than the person who does not. They found that there was a higher scores on a degree of habitual loneliness were associated with an increased tendency to take warm showers or baths. This is because of people be apt to replace social warmth …show more content…
Lifestyle and habits of participant was measured by Lifestyle and Habits Questionnaire – Brief (LHQ-B). The questionnaire has divided into 2 parts. First part is health and exercise, where participant needed to answer 6 questions based on scale of 1 to 5 from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). A sample question is “I have good physical endurance”. Second part is survey on lifestyle habits, where participant had to answer 5 questions based on different scale for each question. A sample question is “How often do you usually take bath”? This questionnaire was irrelevant to purpose of this experiment and these questions were asked to make participants not aware of true purpose of this
In nowadays, people tend to be more selfish and only care about themselves due to social norm. Indeed, people also think that others are also having the same minded as them. Why people have feelings of social coldness in nowadays? It is because of the weather or the environment become cooler?
From the past, a lot of studies have examined that experiences of physical warmth could induce feelings of social warmth of people. People regulate their feelings of social warmth themselves through applications of physical warmth but they do not aware of the relationship between physical and social warmth (Bargh & Shalev, 2012). According to Bargh and Shalev (2012) study, social and physical warmth are substitutable every day and the substitution is an unconscious self-regulatory mechanism. People definitely not aware of the link between social and physical warmth as they do not realise that person who bathes frequently to be lonelier than the person who does not. They found that there was a higher scores on a degree of habitual loneliness were associated with an increased tendency to take warm showers or baths. This is because of people be apt to replace social warmth …show more content…
Lifestyle and habits of participant was measured by Lifestyle and Habits Questionnaire – Brief (LHQ-B). The questionnaire has divided into 2 parts. First part is health and exercise, where participant needed to answer 6 questions based on scale of 1 to 5 from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5). A sample question is “I have good physical endurance”. Second part is survey on lifestyle habits, where participant had to answer 5 questions based on different scale for each question. A sample question is “How often do you usually take bath”? This questionnaire was irrelevant to purpose of this experiment and these questions were asked to make participants not aware of true purpose of this