E-Matura | LiC | Multiple Choice | B2 | How heat affects your mood

Past research has demonstrated – and we can certainly all agree – that a really hot day can induce feelings of grumpiness and even hostility toward everyone around us. But this is the first study to show (0) a link betweenrelations withconnections withincontact to ambient temperature and “prosocial” behaviors,

which are (1) quiteabsolutelysureessentially those selfless deeds that benefit other people,

organizations, or society (2) completelyas a wholein allall over, but not explicitly ourselves.

To study this connection, researchers from Lehigh University and Northwestern University (3)makeperformedwill designhave reported three experiments.

In the first, they found that retail stores employees were 50 percent less likely to (4)promotego afterengage infollow prosocial behaviors – like volunteering to help customers,

listening actively, and making suggestions – when they were working in an uncomfortably hot store (5)as inunlikelythancompared to normal conditions.

In the second experiment, (6) just aboutbecause justjust wheneven just thinking about hot temperatures was enough to influence helping behaviors.

Half of the participants taking a paid online survey were asked to (7) recallcall upthink backmemorize situations in which they were uncomfortably hot, and then all of the participants were asked to take another survey for no additional compensation.

Only 34 percent of the people who imagined feeling hot (8) want tohave volunteeredhad applied towere willing to complete the free survey, versus 76 percent of the control group.

Finally, the researchers asked college students seated in either a 69-degree Fahrenheit did participatemade itfilled inwrote everything room or an 80-degree Fahrenheit [26,6°C] room to fill out a survey that would benefit a local non- profit organization. Only 64 percent of the students in the hot room agreed to answer at least one question, compared to 95 percent in the cool room. And those in the hot room who (9) [x] answered only about one sixth of the questions those in the cool room did.

The researchers were able to show that hot and muggy environments increased fatigue and reduced positive mood, which (10) directly ledapparently causedobviously resultedquickly affected to less helping behavior.

Understanding this connection may help people better (11) providelook forward toanticipatetake to –

and possibly prevent – these types of harmful or (12) ineffectivedoubtfulundesirabledisruptive behaviors, they say. “Even though one cannot control or change the weather itself, it is feasible to control one’s ambient environment,” they wrote in their paper.