Social Exclusion Makes People Physically Cold

A study by psychologists has found that people who feel excluded often want to eat/drink something warm because they actually feel physically colder. The psychologists isolated two groups of people and had one group think about a time when they were accepted and the other think about a time when they were excluded. The excluded group on average felt that the room was about 5 degrees colder. The psychologists also tested this effect with computer games. The people were told that they were playing a computer game of catch with other people in the room. It was actually just a computer that threw the ball to some people and ignored others. The people who were ignored were more likely to want soup or coffee than those who interacted with the game.