Scientists Explain Why Women Don't Feel The Cold On Nights Out

If you've ever gone out drinking on a cold winter's night, spotted a group of women without coats or jackets and wondered, 'how aren't they freezing?' then you're not alone.

In fact, a group of researchers have even carried out a scientific study to get to the bottom of that very question.

One of the study's authors, Roxanne Felig, from the University of South Florida, recently took to TikTok to share their findings, explaining that women who look 'hot' or who are more focused on 'self-objectification' are less aware of feeling cold.

Shall we all assume Cardi B's honorary doctorate is in the post?

Felig explained: "So basically, it seems like what Cardi was saying was that she was too focussed on how she looked and what she was wearing to feel cold.

"And this actually aligns perfectly with the main theoretical perspective that I used to conduct my research, which is objectification theory."

She went on to explain that the theory argues that when women are 'highly focused on how they appear externally, it reduces the amount of cognitive resources that they have available to appraise their internal states'.

Felig continued: "So, when women are in a state of objectification, they are less aware of how hungry they are, their heartbeat.

"They are just less able to recognise their internal states."

The researchers tested their theory by surveying women who were standing outside clubs on cold nights - when temps hit between 4.4°C and 10°C - and asking the women to assessed their state of 'self objectification' as well as how cold they felt.

They also took into account how much the women had had to drink.

The study found: "Our hypothesis was supported: women low in self‐objectification showed a positive, intuitive, relationship between skin exposure and perceptions of coldness, but women more highly focused on their appearance did not feel colder when wearing less clothing."