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Heartwarming: How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human

English · Hardback

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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.


About the author

Hans Rocha IJzerman is an associate professor in social psychology at the Université Grenoble Alpes and the foremost expert on social thermoregulation in humans. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Huffington Post. He lives in France.

Product details

Authors Hans Ijzerman, Hans Rocha Ijzerman, Hans Rocha (Universite Grenoble Alpes) IJzerman, Hans Rocha Ijzerman
Publisher Norton W W Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.03.2021
 
EAN 9781324002529
ISBN 978-1-324-00252-9
Subjects Guides > Health
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General

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