Year: 2022
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Temperature is one of the major environmental factors that people are exposed to on a daily basis, often in conditions that do not afford control.It is known that heat and cold can influence a person's productivity and performance in simple tasks.With respect to social cognition, it has also been suggested that temperature impacts on relatively highlevel forms of decision-making.For instance, previous research demonstrated that cold temperature promotes utilitarian judgment in a moral dilemma task (Nakamura et al., 2014).In this moral dilemma task, they offered dilemmas reflecting situations in which the subject can save a larger number of lives by sacrificing one person's life.Utilitarian judgment in this task means that a subject chooses to save more people by sacrificing a victim.This temperature effect could be due to psychological processing, when a cool temperature primes a set of internal representations (associated with "coldness").Alternatively, the promotion of utilitarian judgment in cold conditions could be due to physiological interference from temperature, impeding on social cognition.Refuting both explanations of psychological or physiological processing, however, it has been suggested that there may be problems of reproducibility in the literature on temperature modulating complex or abstract information processing.To examine the role of temperature in moral decision-making, we conducted a series of experiments using ambient and haptic temperature with careful manipulation checks and modified task methodology.Experiment 1 (Chapter 2) manipulated room temperature with cool (21℃),
Author: 須藤, 竜之介
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7145126021