Seeing other people cold also reduces our temperature

Seeing others eat sour, we salivate. Seeing a person bleeding, we feel shivers. These are very normal reflexes of the body. Not only that, but scientists at the University of Sussex in the UK have recently proved that when people see that they are cold, your body temperature also tends to decrease.

In a test by a team of scientists from Sussex University, led by neuroscientist Neil Harrison, showed volunteers a video, including scenes of people who dipped their hands in cold ice buckets. Although only watching movies, strangely, the hands of the volunteers also tend to reduce the temperature and they feel a bit cold and cold like the people in the movie.

"We believe that understanding this mimic reaction will help people understand how we feel sensations." Mimicking the response of another person is supposed to help us create one. internal physiological state, thereby studying their motivation and feelings better, "said Neil Harrison.

Specifically of the test was carried out as follows, the team invited 36 volunteers to join, then showed them 8 short continuous videos divided into 4 videos of warm feeling and 4 on cold feeling.

First, in 4 warm videos. In the first 40s, it was shown that a person was mixing warm water to smoke a transparent container, taking a thermometer to measure the temperature of the water. After that, this person soaked 2 hands in this warm water pot.

Next, the video shows the cold. Instead of mixing hot water in a bucket, the other person poured a bag of ice. In the video, the face of the person is hidden and the screen clearly shows the temperature of the room is 21 degrees C. In the end, the other person immerses two hands in a bucket of ice water, of course because the face is covered so that the expression doesn't show it to volunteers.

During the process, the team measured the temperature of the volunteers 'hands and found that, when watching videos of people in the hands of cold water, the temperature of the volunteers' hands also decreased, despite the price. the reduction is very small but still recorded: the left hand decreases by 0.2 degrees C and the right hand decreases by 0.05 degrees C. The test condition of the room when watching videos is the same, only different from the video content presentation only.

Thus, the imitating response of our bodies when we see others do something is real, for example sneezing, souring when eating sour and recently discovered is to reduce the temperature when it is cold. Harrison's team continued to work on clarifying this issue.