Heartwarming
How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human
$59.35
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2021
Summary
A hot cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa is calming and comforting-but how can holding a warm mug affect our emotions? In Heartwarming, social psychologist Hans Rocha IJzerman explores temperature through the long lens of evolution. Besides breathing, regulating body temperature is one of the most fundamental tasks for any animal. Like huddling penguins, we humans have long relied on one another to maintain our temperatures; over millennia, this instinct for thermoregulation has shaped our…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324002529 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1324002522 |
| Author: | Hans Rocha IJzerman |
| Publisher: | WW Norton & Co |
| Imprint: | WW Norton & Co |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 493g |
| Dimensions: | 28mm x 160mm x 236mm |
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Critics Review
“Hans Rocha IJzerman sticks a thermometer into every human and animal behavior to show us how much depends on outside and inside temperature. It is a surprising take that illuminates far more than you might think.” – Frans de Waal, New York Times best-selling author of Mama’s Last Hug
Hans Rocha IJzerman
Hans Rocha IJzerman is an associate professor in social psychology at the Université Grenoble Alpes and the foremost expert on social thermoregulation in humans. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Huffington Post. He lives in France.
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