An Experimental Study On The Relationship Between Communion And Temperature Perception

According to the theory of embodied cognition,the perceptual experience of concrete body is the foundation of human understanding and processing.Conceptual metaphor theory holds that metaphor is a way for people to express abstract complex target domains in a simple domain.In different languages and cultures,people use "enthusiasm" and "indifference" to describe the impression on others.According to the theory of conceptual metaphor,the human social emotional and interpersonal experience come from physical and direct experience,abstract social emotion concepts need to characterize through direct experience of the body,so people with the physical characteristics of temperature experience to construct the understanding of complex relationships,and human experience social emotional and interpersonal relationship it will affect the body temperature perception.Communion are often defined as "warmth"(Asch,1946),including friendly,cooperative,honest(Wojciszke&Abele,2008).Asch(1946)holds that the earliest "enthusiasm-indifference" is an important dimension of consciousness judgment of others,psychological warmth is a core of perception and evaluation of the people(seeAbele&Wojciszke,2007;Fiske,Cuddy&Glick,2007),so in many cases we think of "psychological warmth" and "communion"can replace each other.Based on the research of Szymkow&Wojciszke(2013),this paper studies the relationship between the communino and temperature perception in Chinese cultural background,and discusses the bidirectional effect of the communion and temperature perception by the four experiments.Based on the results of the four studies,the following conclusions:1.The subjects in the reading of the positive communion of the essay,the laboratory will be a higher temperature judgment,the subjects read the positive characteristics of the reading of the text has no effect on temperature judgment.2.The subjects to judge the temperature in the communion of the trait positive conditions under high communion,in the condition of trait negative temperature judgment is low,but positive agency and negative agency trait judgment there is no significant difference on the temperature.3.The concept of social concept and moral concept,participants will start judging temperature is higher,there are temperature effect of social and moral metaphor,but social morality is strong effect,and temperature perception closer together.4.The subjects tend to be positive in the treatment of the warmth of the other people's communion for the positive,while in the cold treatment conditions of the other people's communion for negative evaluation.The perception of cold and hot temperature does not affect the evaluation of the other person's activity.