Creativity in the Wild: Improving Creative Reasoning through Immersion in Natural Settings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 434-448.Ītchley, R. Hot temperatures, hostile affect, hostile cognition, and arousal: Tests of a general model of affective aggression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 46, 91-97.Īnderson, C. Ambient temperature and violent crime: Tests of linear and curvilinear hypotheses. Maybe the dissolution of some relationships is a cause for joy, but only a true cynic would conclude that breakups, on average, bring people greater happiness.Īnderson, C. In short, if Facebook is a barometer of relationships, summer weather brings about the demise of relationships, not their flourishing. Some interesting trends emerged in a study of users in the United States by Facebook researchers in 2012: More relation dissolutions occurred during the summer-June was the worst month for Facebook users' relationships, regardless of user age-while the days with the most "new relationships" occurred in February, right after Valentine's Day. Interestingly, Facebook can provide some insight into this issue in that the website tracks changes in relationship status across the calendar (albeit an imperfect measure of romantic relationship initiation and dissolution). Overall, the effects were small, and the findings observed indicated that although weather was unrelated to people's positive affect, warmer temperatures actually increased people's negative feelings, even though more sunlight, as one might expect, had a more desirable effect-but again, the effects were modest in size.ĭoes better weather lead to the initiation of new romantic relationships? There is a belief that spring and summer are the seasons for love, while fall is when depressing break-up songs earn their popularity. There was, however, evidence that negative affect (e.g., feeling jittery, distressed, irritable) increased with warmer-and not colder-temperatures, and decreased with more sunlight and less wind. The findings were interesting in that none of the weather measurements significantly predicted positive affect (e.g., feeling enthusiastic, inspired, determined). (2008) studied more than 1,600 people, examining daily reports of their well-being along with local weather station conditions (e.g., temperature, sunlight, wind conditions). Yet when it comes to other people, the scientific literature has found that the weather-mood link is small-and sometimes surprising (e.g., Keller et al., 2005).
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