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HEARTWARMING
How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human
A charming investigation of core body temperature regulation and its powerful effect on human civilization.
A hot cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa is calming and comforting?but how can holding a warm mug affect our emotions? In Heartwarming, social psychologist Hans Rocha IJzerman explores temperature through the long lens of evolution. Besides breathing, regulating body temperature is one of the fundamental tasks for any animal. Like huddling penguins, we humans have long relied on each other to maintain our temperatures; over millennia, this instinct for thermoregulation has shaped our lives and culture.
As IJzerman illuminates how temperature affects human sociality, he examines fascinating new questions: How will climate change impact society? Why are some chronically cold, and others overheated? Can thermoregulation keep relationships closer, even across distance? The answers offer new insights for all of us who want to better understand our bodies, our minds, and each other. Heartwarming takes readers on an engaging journey through the world, seen from the perspective of coldness and warmth.
Hans IJzerman is the world's foremost expert on social thermoregulation in humans. He has published over 30 academic articles in the top journals of his field.His research has been prominently featured in Scientific American Mind, the Daily Mail, and has contacts with many journalists in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
A hot cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa is calming and comforting?but how can holding a warm mug affect our emotions? In Heartwarming, social psychologist Hans Rocha IJzerman explores temperature through the long lens of evolution. Besides breathing, regulating body temperature is one of the fundamental tasks for any animal. Like huddling penguins, we humans have long relied on each other to maintain our temperatures; over millennia, this instinct for thermoregulation has shaped our lives and culture.
As IJzerman illuminates how temperature affects human sociality, he examines fascinating new questions: How will climate change impact society? Why are some chronically cold, and others overheated? Can thermoregulation keep relationships closer, even across distance? The answers offer new insights for all of us who want to better understand our bodies, our minds, and each other. Heartwarming takes readers on an engaging journey through the world, seen from the perspective of coldness and warmth.
Hans IJzerman is the world's foremost expert on social thermoregulation in humans. He has published over 30 academic articles in the top journals of his field.His research has been prominently featured in Scientific American Mind, the Daily Mail, and has contacts with many journalists in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
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Published 2021-02-01 by Norton |