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Cognitive Daily: Being excluded from a social group makes you feel cold -- literally

Submitted by Chriswarfield

Nov 06, 2008

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Chen-Bo Zhong and Geoffrey Leonardelli told a college student volunteers that they would be participating in a set of unrelated experiments. First they were asked to recall a time when they felt either socially excluded or included. Then a research assistant told them that the lab maintenance staff was working on the heating system for the room, and asked them to estimate the room's temperature. You guessed it: the participants' temperature estimates corresponded to whether they had been prompted to think about social exclusion or inclusion, as this graph indicates. Read the full article

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