Don’t sweat it: Ambient temperature does not affect social behavior and perception

IF 2.5 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2023.102657

Jan S. Krause , Gerrit Brandt , Ulrich Schmidt , Daniel Schunk

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Abstract

Literature suggests that human perception and behavior vary with physical temperature. We conducted an experiment to study how different ambient temperatures impact social behavior and perception: subjects undertook a series of tasks measuring various aspects of social behavior and perception under three temperature conditions (cold vs. optimal vs. warm). Despite well-established findings on the effects of temperature, our data suggest that ambient temperature has no relevant influence on social behavior and perception. We corroborate our finding of a null effect using equivalence testing and provide a discussion considering recent failed replication attempts in this field of research and related studies on heat and violence.

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别担心：环境温度不会影响社会行为和感知

文献表明，人的感知和行为随着体温的变化而变化。为了研究不同的环境温度对社会行为和感知的影响，我们进行了一项实验:受试者在三种温度条件下(冷、最佳和温暖)承担了一系列测量社会行为和感知各个方面的任务。尽管对温度的影响已经有了完善的研究结果，但我们的数据表明，环境温度对社会行为和感知没有相关的影响。我们使用等效检验证实了零效应的发现，并提供了考虑到最近在该研究领域失败的复制尝试以及有关热和暴力的相关研究的讨论。

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Journal of Economic Psychology Multiple-

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5.20

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31.40%

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审稿时长

63 days

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