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Posted by hipstomp | 24 Oct 2008
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This isn't strictly design-related, but will surely be of interest to those of you who like entering those theory-heavy design competitions:
...a new study by researchers [tested] to see if there was any connection between physical and emotional heat.To their surprise, they found that people who held a cup of hot coffee for 10 to 25 seconds warmed to a perfect stranger. Holding a cup of iced coffee had the opposite effect.
Might this explain why people seem friendlier in Hawaii than in Helsinki? And what implications could this have for product design--business-card-warmer-upper carrying cases, anyone?
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This is not too surprising. People are generally happier in a warmer weather climate. But just having any sensation of warmth is interesting.
-C
Does that mean that if I want to meet new people at a bar that I should be drinking a warm beer?
Don't you mean the opposite? People in Hawaii would be more likely to drink ice-tea, where in Helsinki more peeps are drinking coffee.
Or is it that the warm air in the bar is enough?
Where are you getting this test info from?
odd, i found people in helsinki to be warmer than those in singapore ;p
Wouldn't people in helsinki be nicer because they would be the ones holding the warm coffee, and the people in Hawaii would be the ones drinking the ice coffee, no?