The Substitutability of Physical and Social Warmth in Daily Life

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3406601/ Classic and contemporary research on person perception has demonstrated the paramount importance of interpersonal warmth. Recent research on embodied cognition has shown these feelings of social warmth or coldness can be induced by experiences of physical warmth or coldness, and vice versa. Here we show that people tend to self-regulate their feelings of social…