A Meta-Analysis of Performance Response Under Thermal Stressors

By Peter A. Hancock, Jennifer M. Ross, James L. Szalma. Hum. Factors, 2007

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Subfields: Behavioral Neuroscience, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Physiology

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Citations in the corpus

Distress Tolerance and Psychopathological Symptoms and Disorders: A Review of the Empirical Literature among Adults (2010, methodology): “, practice of thermal stress exposure may increase the ability to withstand thermal stress) and other factors (e.g., current stress level; Hancock et al., 2007).”
Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa (2009, background): “productivity, which can decline with higher temperatures (23)— further elucidating the relative contributions of these factors remains a critical area for future research.”
Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change (2014, neutral): “See Epstein et al. ð1980Þ, Ramsey ð1995Þ, Pilcher,Nadler, andBusch ð2002Þ, and Hancock, Ross, and Szalma ð2007Þ for evidence on cognitive performance.”
Simultaneous effects of irrelevant speech, temperature and ventilation rate on performance and satisfaction in open-plan offices ☆ (2015, background): “These results are consistent with the suggestion of Hancock et al. (2007) that the performance effects of room temperature are task-sensitive.”
The Impact of Pollution on Worker Productivity (2012, neutral): “…can lead to severe negative health effects, including heat cramps, exhaustion, and stroke, as well as more subtle impacts on endurance, fatigue, and cognitive performance (e.g., González-Alonso et al. 1999; Hancock, Ross, and Szalma 2007), all of which may diminish the productivity of workers.”
The Light and the Heat: Productivity Co-Benefits of Energy-Saving Technology (2019, background): “…bulb temperature of about 29.5◦C before LED introduction.19 This 29.5◦C dry bulb temperature is quite consistent with estimates from previous studies on the physiological threshold for the absorption of heat into the body, above which temperature affects human functioning (Hancock et al., 2007).”
Particulate Pollution and the Productivity of Pear Packers (2016, positive): “This is consistent with a large body of ergonomic evidence that finds that task performance exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with temperature at a similar inflection point (Hancock, Ross, and Szalma 2007).”