Loneliness is reflected in the body

An investigation of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto , in Canada, has shown that there is a connection between the feeling of loneliness, hopelessness and sadness, which are detonated in the face of social isolation, and the physical sensation of cold .

According to this study presented before the Association for Psychological Science , the psychologists of the Canadian university observed that people who had feelings of loneliness tended to value that the temperature The environmental of a room was much lower than what people with social "warmth" of family and friends perceived.

In this research, led by Chen-Bo Zhong, and Geoffrey Leonardelli, they tried to generate feelings of isolation and loneliness in two groups of volunteers, by reconstructing experiences that made them feel socially excluded, such as being expelled from a place.

As part of the results published in the journal Psychological Science, the authors of the work revealed that the memories of exclusion really made them feel that the temperature environment was more cool than the rest of the participants in the test, according to muyinteresante.es

They also verified that people with a feeling of loneliness had the need to consume more hot foods , like a chicken broth or a cup of hot chocolate, which confirms the idea that this type of food is comforting in the face of bad experiences.

In this way, according to the researchers, the results are a new way of exploring the interaction between environment and psychology. In fact, not only the feeling of loneliness cold , but there are also specific mental disorders that could be linked to climate, such as seasonal affective disorder.

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