Does Elemental Damage inflict elemental effects?

[Jormaine]

I am new to Pathfinder (I have the beginner box), and not sure if this was addressed elsewhere, but I have a question about attacks that deal a particular type of damage.

Take for instance a simple cantrip like Ray of Frost; when it deals the 1d3 cold damage to target enemy, does the cold damage inflict any extra effects, like say for instance exhaustion? The book doesn't say, and I haven't found anything on the internet that talks about this.

Reason I ask is because I was browsing through the environmental hazards section, and it says any cold damage inflicted also causes exhaustion. Thing is this is under environmental hazards, so I am unsure if it's safe to assume a frost shot will exhaust its victim, or if a fireball will burn, etc.

If it does, I'd like to also know if there's anywhere I can refer to for the different kinds of elemental damages in Pathfinder, as well as the effects they inflict.

[Drejk]

In general: unless the description says that particular ability does anything beyond inflicting damage then it does not. So cold do not cause exhaustion, acid do not cause choking on fumes, lightning does not stun, shock or otherwise incapacitate injured character and fire only sets things alight when either the ability used explicitly says it causes things to catch on flame or the object damaged specifically says that it is ignited by any fire damage.

[Grick]

Jormaine wrote:

anywhere I can refer to for the different kinds of elemental damages in Pathfinder, as well as the effects they inflict.

They only inflict damage unless stated otherwise.

Catching on fire: "Spells with an instantaneous duration don't normally set a character on fire, since the heat and flame from these come and go in a flash."

Jormaine wrote:

Reason I ask is because I was browsing through the environmental hazards section, and it says any cold damage inflicted also causes exhaustion.

"A character who takes any nonlethal damage from cold or exposure is beset by frostbite or hypothermia (treat her as fatigued)."

This refers only to damage dealt by a cold environment.

[Jormaine]

thank you both for the clarification =D.