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How can you make a gathering more social and friendly?

Eric Barker
November 24, 2011

Turning up the temperature a few degrees physically and emotionally makes people warmer:

“Holding warm feelings toward someone” and “giving someone the cold shoulder” indicate different levels of social proximity. In this article, we show effects of temperature that go beyond these metaphors people live by. In three experiments, warmer conditions, compared with colder conditions, induced (a) greater social proximity, (b) use of more concrete language, and (c) a more relational focus. Different temperature conditions were created by either handing participants warm or cold beverages (Experiment 1) or placing them in comfortable warm or cold ambient conditions (Experiments 2 and 3). These studies corroborate recent findings in the field of grounded cognition revealing that concrete experiences ground abstract concepts with which they are coexperienced. Our studies show a systemic interdependence among language, perception, and social proximity: Environmentally induced conditions shape not only language use, but also the perception and construal of social relationships.

Source: “The thermometer of social relations: mapping social proximity on temperature.” from Psychol Sci. 2009 Oct;20(10):1214-20. Epub 2009 Sep 2.

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Title How can you make a gathering more social and friendly?
Author Eric Barker
Date November 24, 2011 5:49 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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