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embodied cognition
Holding a warm drink makes you judge others as warmer.
A 2008 study by Williams and Bargh reported this effect, but it has not held up under independent replication.
Three independent studies with larger sample sizes failed to replicate the original finding, suggesting the effect may be smaller, non-existent, or highly context-dependent.
Your social evaluations are tethered to your physical environment.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Williams and Bargh, 2008, Science
- What the check found
- The original study by Williams and Bargh (2008) does exist and reported these results, but the claim is overstated because it presents the finding as settled science while ignoring significant failures to replicate.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.