Answer: If you use a very small resistance AND the circuit design is such that the voltage drop is across the resistance of the heating-wire-circuit, [nothing else in the circuit is limiting current flow] you will get more heating. That's what we have in a heat anticipator internal-nichrome-wire-heater device.
That electrical energy will be dissipated in the form of heat, heating up the wire in the process. This heating is called Joule heating (James Prescott Joule) or ohmic heating or resistive heating. Which tells us that lower resistance (R) will produce higher current. Therefore lower resistance produces more heat.
