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The research, carried out by a team at the University of California and published in the journal Psychological Science, used MRI scans and found feelings of social and physical warmth both result in increased activity in the same part of the brain. This suggests that closeness to other people creates feelings of contentment, as it triggers the same physical responses involved when keeping warm.
The study involved 20 participants, and as part of the experiment, their close family or friends submitted a message of appreciation, or a simple fact about the subject.
Examples of 'positive' messages included, "Whenever I'm completely lost, you're the person I turn to", while neutral notes included, "I've known you for 10 years".
Brain scans were also recorded during the experiment and after the completion of each task, participants rated how warm and how socially connected they felt on a scale of one (not at all) to seven (very).
In the first task, individuals either read two positive or two neutral messages, but after reading the former, participants rated their warmth as 6.14 on average, compared to 3.8 after reading neutral facts.
Researchers concluded that the findings support the thought that there is "an interplay between social and physical warmth."
For the second task, the volunteers held a warm pack and a room-temperature ball for 10 seconds each, repeating this five times, and it was discovered that holding the heated object led to higher ratings of connection, 2.47, than simply holding the ball, 1.63.
Discussing the findings, the University of California team wrote: "Together, these results suggest a potential mechanism by which social warmth, the contented subjective experience of feeling loved and connected to other people, has become such a pleasant experience and led credence to the description of connection experiences as 'heartwarming'."
Co-authors Tristen Inagaki and Dr Naomi Eisenberger added that the results suggest physical warmth could be used to help alleviate certain social problems.
(JP/IT)
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Scientists have suggested that feeling love and being shown affection can leave us feeling physically warmer.The research, carried out by a team at the University of California and published in the journal Psychological Science, used MRI scans and found feelings of social and physical warmth both result in increased activity in the same part of the brain. This suggests that closeness to other people creates feelings of contentment, as it triggers the same physical responses involved when keeping warm.
The study involved 20 participants, and as part of the experiment, their close family or friends submitted a message of appreciation, or a simple fact about the subject.
Examples of 'positive' messages included, "Whenever I'm completely lost, you're the person I turn to", while neutral notes included, "I've known you for 10 years".
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Brain scans were also recorded during the experiment and after the completion of each task, participants rated how warm and how socially connected they felt on a scale of one (not at all) to seven (very).
In the first task, individuals either read two positive or two neutral messages, but after reading the former, participants rated their warmth as 6.14 on average, compared to 3.8 after reading neutral facts.
Researchers concluded that the findings support the thought that there is "an interplay between social and physical warmth."
For the second task, the volunteers held a warm pack and a room-temperature ball for 10 seconds each, repeating this five times, and it was discovered that holding the heated object led to higher ratings of connection, 2.47, than simply holding the ball, 1.63.
Discussing the findings, the University of California team wrote: "Together, these results suggest a potential mechanism by which social warmth, the contented subjective experience of feeling loved and connected to other people, has become such a pleasant experience and led credence to the description of connection experiences as 'heartwarming'."
Co-authors Tristen Inagaki and Dr Naomi Eisenberger added that the results suggest physical warmth could be used to help alleviate certain social problems.
(JP/IT)
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