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Metaphor

Everything on this site about metaphor — each one naming the study behind it.

Warm coffee makes you judge people more kindly.
A 2008 study reported this finding, but the effect has not been successfully replicated in later research.…
Your brain treats abstract ideas as physical weight.
Participants holding a heavy clipboard rated job applicants as having more 'serious' and 'significant' personalities.…
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…