More Info on Physical and Social Warmth
Warmth and warmth again linked
Warmth and warmth again linked
Recent research confirms that colder objects seem heavier than ones at a neutral temperature.
How air temperature influences humans psychologically has been extensively studied.
Belkin and Kouchaki set out to learn how the temperature of the place people are in influences how they think and behave.
The Center for the Built Environment at Berkeley shares a free tool for evaluating thermal comfort.
Halali and colleagues learned that just thinking about temperature has a serious effect on how our brains work.
Shahzad and her team studied some of the implications of user control over temperature in their work areas.
Lamb and Kwok looked at the effects of workplace stressors on performance.
Syndicus, Wiese, and van Treeck studied how temperature influences decision making, finding that at warmer temperatures people seem to take more risks.
Our skin is our largest sense organ and no matter where we are or what we’re doing, all of it’s collecting info and sending it to our brains for processing. After our brains are done assessing and analyzing them, touch-related inputs inform our thoughts and behaviors.