Warmer hearts, and warmer, but noisier rooms: Communality does elicit warmth, but only for those in colder ambient temperatures — Commentary on Ebersole et al. (2016)

• Published in: Journal of experimental social psychology Vol. 67; pp. 88 - 90
• Main Authors: IJzerman, Hans, Szymkow, Aleksandra, Parzuchowski, Michal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego Elsevier Inc 01.11.2016; Academic Press; Elsevier
• Subjects: Cold; Experiments; Humanities and Social Sciences; Machine Learning; ManyLabs; Methodology; Priming; Probability; Psychology; Replication; Social interaction; Social psychology; Social thermoregulation; Statistics; Temperature; Warmth; Warmth; Replication; Priming; ManyLabs; Social thermoregulation

In this article, we comment on the replication attempt by Ebersole and colleagues (2015) on the effect that communal (vs. agentic) priming leads to estimates of higher ambient temperature. We conclude that the probability that the effect is true is considerable, but only at lower ambient temperature...