As a flooring material, wood retains warmth from heating systems, both from HVAC systems and radiant heat systems, increasing the overall
physical warmth of the room.
In other words, those who pay more attention to how others express warmth may be attentive to warmth in general, including
actual physical warmth.
In individual brains, then, the multichannel experience of being safe with another (initially, a mother) is forever fused with the
experienced physical warmth that comes with being safe, fed and held.
In this case, the original study1 showed that when anxiously attached individuals were primed to feel a relationship threat (e.g., thinking about a breakup) they were more likely to
seek physical warmth as an «embodied» substitute for emotional warmth (e.g., preferring hot foods like soup as opposed to medium - temperature foods like chips).
Individuals perceive others to be more interpersonally warm immediately after having
experienced physical warmth.5 In a now - classic study, researchers had participants hold either a hot cup of coffee or a cold cup of coffee and then rate how much they liked another person.
Is
it the physical warmth of the dish as it comes out of the oven, or the sight of the cheese drizzling down and reaching every nook and cranny between the meat and veggies?
In addition, the baby will feel
the physical warmth of the parents.
Now let's see what happens with all those other null replications of studies about relationships and
physical warmth.
Researchers have found that
physical warmth can influence our perceptions of another person's psychological warmth.
Additionally, when people are lonely, they tend to seek out
physical warmth.
The physical warmth that the floors provide is also an attractive feature, especially on winter mornings when the cold ceramic tiles make getting up that much harder.