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Holding a warm drink makes you judge strangers as warmer.
A 2008 study reported that participants holding warm coffee judged a target person to have a 'warmer' personality, but this finding has failed to replicate in larger, independent studies.
The original study by Williams and Bargh (2008) is widely cited but is now considered non-replicable in the context of modern psychological science.
Your physical environment is shaping how you view the people around you.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Williams and Bargh, 2008, Science
- What the check found
- While the 2008 study did report these findings, the claim presents them as an established fact without acknowledging that the results have failed to replicate in subsequent, larger-scale research.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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