The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature
Journal
Collabra: Psychology
ISSN
2474-7394
Date Issued
2018
Author(s)
Hans IJzerman
Siegwart Lindenberg
İlker Dalğar
Sophia S. C. Weissgerber
Rodrigo C. Vergara
Athena H. Cairo
Marija V. Čolić
Pinar Dursun
Natalia Frankowska
Rhonda Hadi
Calvin J. Hall
Youngki Hong
Chuan-Peng Hu
Jennifer Joy-Gaba
Dušanka Lazarević
Ljiljana B. Lazarević
Michal Parzuchowski
Kyle G. Ratner
David Rothman
Samantha Sim
Cláudia Simão
Mengdi Song
Darko Stojilović
Johanna K. Blomster
Rodrigo Brito
Marie Hennecke
FRANCISCO TOMAS JAUME GUAZZINI
Thomas W. Schubert
Astrid Schütz
Beate Seibt
Janis H. Zickfeld
Type
Resource Types::text::journal::journal article
Abstract
<jats:p>Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N = 1755) designed to test the principles from this theory, we used supervised machine learning to identify social and non-social factors that relate to core body temperature. This data-driven analysis found that complex social integration (CSI), defined as the number of high-contact roles one engages in, is a critical predictor of core body temperature. We further used a cross-validation approach to show that colder climates relate to higher levels of CSI, which in turn relates to higher CBT (when climates get colder). These results suggest that despite modern affordances for regulating body temperature, people still rely on social warmth to buffer their bodies against the cold.</jats:p>
Subjects
social integration
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social thermoregulation theory
;
attachment theory
;
embodiment
;
machine learning