Research question:
To what extent is “heat therapy” able to impact attitudes towards sociability in patients suffering from depression?
Hypotheses:
H1: prolonged heat therapy is able to change the perception of patient’s outlook on sociality.
**HIJ this is clear - but the situations need to be sketched out. Basically, this could have been done by describing the therapy in the introduction somewhat more, and then sketching the therapy with and without heat treatment, and likely also coupling heat treatment with predictability of the social situation, or in situations where the patient feels stressed - i.e., the stress buffering. This was not sufficiently worked out yet.**
H2: the changed association will transfer two situations where heat is not applied if enough repeated measures are used (predictive control).
**HIJ I did not get this hypothesis.**