Similar intermixing of the real and the metaphorical occurs with temperature sensation. In another study from Bargh's group, the researcher, hands full with something, would ask a subject to briefly hold a cup of coffee for them. Half the subjects held warm coffee, half iced coffee. Subjects then read about some individual and answered questions about them. Subjects who held the warm cup rated the individual as having a warmer personality {without altering ratings about other characteristics}. In the next part of the study, the temperature of a held object altered subjects' generosity and levels of trust-cold hands, cold heart.
( Robert M. Sapolsky )
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