{"id":7842,"date":"2011-08-01T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humintell.com\/?p=7842"},"modified":"2011-09-16T17:18:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T00:18:44","slug":"cant-bear-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/08\/cant-bear-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Bear the Heat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8978\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/2011\/08\/cant-bear-the-heat\/fan-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8978\" title=\"Fan [1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Heat-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Heat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Heat-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The summer weather was slow in arriving but is now in full blast.\u00a0 In places like Sacramento and Reno, the temperature has been reaching triple digits.\u00a0 How is all this heat affecting our behavior?<\/p>\n<p>Many people would blindly say that tempers rise when hot summer days are prevalent.\u00a0 Try to argue with someone on that matter and you might find yourself in a very heated debate.\u00a0\u00a0 But do hot temperatures cause people to temporarily go crazy?<\/p>\n<p>What is the correlation between heat and violence?\u00a0 Science purports that yes there is a correlation but it is not quite what one would expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2011\/07\/hot-weather-violence\/\"><em>Wired.com<\/em><\/a> reported on one study that psychologists Ellen Cohn and James Rotton of Florida State University have conducted, which concluded that assaults rose with the temperature but only to a point.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting fact from this study is that crime doesn\u2019t rise when it is super hot like one might suspect.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0272494499901573\">study <\/a>purports that at around 80 degrees Fahrenheit crime rates for assault started to decrease.\u00a0 Therefore, the findings suggest that at moderate levels of discomfort, people are disgruntled and lash out, while at high temperatures they just want to chill out indoors or relax and use less energy.<\/p>\n<p>This makes sense since when it\u2019s really hot people\u2019s major concern tends to be to stay cool and conserve energy.\u00a0 People get lazy in super hot weather.\u00a0 Don\u2019t they?<\/p>\n<p>Interesting enough, psychologist Craig Anderson from Iowa State has conflicting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychology.iastate.edu\/faculty\/caa\/abstracts\/2005-2009\/05BWA_1.pdf\">data<\/a> that suggests a linear relationship between heat and violence, with assault rates peaking at the highest temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Arguments for Anderson\u2019s theory state that body changes during hot weather such as increased heart rates, blood circulation, sweating (all associated with fight or flight) and increases in testosterone provide the perfect conditions for aggressive behavior.<\/p>\n<p>What are our thoughts?\u00a0 Does crime go hand in hand with soaring temperatures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer weather was slow in arriving but is now in full blast.\u00a0 In places like Sacramento and Reno, the temperature has been reaching triple digits.\u00a0 How is all this heat affecting our behavior? Many people would blindly say that tempers rise when hot summer days are prevalent.\u00a0 Try to argue with someone on that&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotion","category-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7842"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8977,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7842\/revisions\/8977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humintell.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}