Trisha Andrew, Chemistry, Discusses Our Sense of Temperature With 'Scientific American'
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Scientific American recently interviewed Trisha Andrew of the College of Natural Sciences's Department of Chemistry in an article about temperature, its objective measurement, and our subjective experience of it. The article argues that psychological and social factors "influence how we perceive temperature and why some places feel hotter or colder than others—even when the temperature outside is identical."
On the subject of our clothing choices, Andrew suggested that, though people often opt for clothing made of synthetic fabrics such as fleece because they think that garments made of these materials will perform better than those made of natural fibers, "natural materials actually absorb a small amount of moisture, drying out the air in between layers so that you have less of a conductive channel to radiate heat away from your body.”
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