While research on human sensory processing shows that warm input is conveyed from the periphery by specific, unmyelinated primary sensory neurons, its pathways in the central nervous system (CNS) remain unclear. To gain physiological information on the spinal pathways that convey warmth or nociceptive sensations, in 15 healthy subjects, we studied the cerebral evoked responses and reaction time...

Abstract Service robots are becoming more popular as artificial intelligence technology advances. Based on the theory of mind perception, this study divides anthropomorphism service into two dimensions (competence and warmth) discusses its impact consumer psychology from perspective dual matching. First, has positive effect consumers’ attachment to robots. Second, increased when anthropomorphic...

Current literature presents four primary parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful. These styles provide an important shortcut for a constellation of parenting behaviors that have been characterized as consisting of warmth, demandingness, and autonomy granting. Empirically, only warmth and demandingness are typically measured. Research reporting on parenting sty...

OBJECTIVES When things go wrong for people they can become self-critical or focus on positive, reassuring aspects of the self. This study explored the relationship between forms of self-criticism and self-reassurance, recall of parental experiences and attachment style in relation to depressed symptoms in students. METHODS A sample of 197 undergraduate students from the UK and Canada complete...

Previous research suggests that stereotypes about a group's warmth bias our visual representation of group members. Based on the stereotype content model (SCM) the current research explored whether the second big dimension of social perception, competence, is also reflected in visual stereotypes. To test this, participants created typical faces for groups either high in warmth and low in compet...

Previous neuroimaging studies have revealed that a trait code is mainly represented in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). However, those studies only investigated the neural code of warmth traits. According to the 'Big Two' model of impression formation, competence traits are the other major dimension when we judge others. The current study explored the neural representation of compe...

Capsaicin and menthol are the most extensively studied of all chemesthetic agents. Capsaicin is best known as a nociceptive stimulus and menthol as an artificial cooling agent, but both have a combination of thermal and nociceptive properties. Capsaicin can affect perception of nonpainful warmth and heat as well as burning pain and menthol can induce burning and stinging as well as cold. Howeve...