Individual difference in thermal comfort: A literature review

Wang, Zhe; de Dear, Richard; Luo, Maohui; Lin, Borong; He, Yingdong; Ghahramani, Ali; Zhu, Yingxin

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.04.040

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Individual difference in thermal comfort: A literature review

Wang, Zhe, de Dear, Richard, Luo, Maohui, Lin, Borong, He, Yingdong, Ghahramani, Ali, Zhu, Yingxin·2018·Building and Environment

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Wang and Schweiker independently surveyed sources of diversity in human thermal perception and dedicated a paragraph to circadian rhythms related to variations in core body temperature, but none focused specifically on reviewing studies investigating dependency of thermal perception on time of day.
“Wang [24] and Schweiker [25] independently surveyed sources of diversity in human thermal perception and dedicated a paragraph to circadian rhythms related to variations in core body temperature. However, none of these works focused specifically on reviewing studies investigating the dependency of thermal perception on the time of day.”
From Human thermal perception and time of day: A review (2021) · cites this paper as [24]
Five review papers were identified that discuss the influence of age on preferred temperature or synonymous concepts such as neutral temperature or thermal comfort.
“Five review papers have been identified that discuss the influence of age on preferred temperature or synonymous concepts such as neutral temperature or thermal comfort (Table 3) [58–62].”
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A systematic review by Wang et al. [62], presenting results from eleven laboratory and 25 field studies, found no significant differences in neutral temperature between men and women in nine out of eleven laboratory studies and in 18 out of 25 field studies.
“For neutral temperature, however, a systematic review by Wang et al. [62], presenting results from eleven laboratory and 25 field studies, found no significant differences between men and women in nine out of eleven laboratory studies and in 18 out of 25 field studies.”
From Drivers of diversity in human thermal perception – A review for holistic comfort models (2018) · cites this paper as [62]
The review results by Wang et al. [62] finding around 75% of studies reporting no sex differences can be explained by the overlap of the pdfTNZ for males and females (Figure 4(a,b)).
“With this respect, the review results by Wang et al. [62] finding around 75% of studies reporting no sex differences can be explained by the overlap of the pdfTNZ for males and females (Figure 4(a,b)).”
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Authors: Wang, Z., de Dear, R., Luo, M., Lin, B., He, Y., Ghahramani, A., & Zhu, Y.
Affiliations: University of California, Berkeley (US)
Tsinghua University (CN)
Hunan University (CN)
Corresponding author: Luo, Maohui
Lin, Borong
ORCID: Wang, Zhe
de Dear, Richard
Luo, Maohui
Lin, Borong
He, Yingdong
Ghahramani, Ali
Zhu, Yingxin
Venue: Building and Environment
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2018-06
Volume: 138
Pages: 181-193
ISSN: 0360-1323 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.04.040
OpenAlex: W2801052353
Cited by: 675
References: 97
Citations by year: 2026: 98 · 2025: 89 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 94 · 2022: 95 · 2021: 63 · 2020: 63 · 2019: 56 · 2018: 16
FWCI: 39.64
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Building and Environment (publishedVersion)
Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Natural Science Foundation of China (5151101128)
China Scholarship Council (201706130019)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Urban Heat Island Mitigation
Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Thermoregulation and physiological responses
Keywords: thermal comfort, individual differences, neutral temperature, thermal preference, sex differences, age differences, fieldwork

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