{"id":1011,"date":"2008-10-24T00:28:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T07:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/10\/hot-fictional-strangers\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T07:29:09","slug":"hot-fictional-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/24\/hot-fictional-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Fictional Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2008\/oct\/24\/psychology-health-food-science-colorado\" target=\"_blank\">from the Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><span style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Hot drinks encourage warmer feelings<\/h1>\n<ul style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 2px; padding-bottom: 4px; position: relative; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 54px; border-color: #d61d00\" class=\"article-attributes\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/iansample\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Ian Sample}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Ian Sample}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\">Ian Sample<\/a>, science correspondent<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"publication\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\">The Guardian<\/a>,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"date\">Friday October 24 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2007\/11\/26\/cupoftea2.jpg\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" alt=\"Cup of tea\" height=\"276\" width=\"460\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">A steaming hot drink may be all it takes to see the world through rose-tinted glasses, psychologists have found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">Holding a warm cup of coffee was enough to make people think strangers were more welcoming and trustworthy, while a cold drink had the opposite effect, a study found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">The warmth of a drink also influenced whether people were more likely to be selfish or give to others, researchers report in the journal Science. A team led by John Bargh at the University of Colorado set about testing whether hot and iced drinks influenced perceptions of others after noting how frequently &#8220;warm&#8221; and &#8220;cold&#8221; are used to describe personalities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">In one test, 41 volunteers were asked to hold a cup of coffee while they took an escalator to a fourth-floor lab. Once there, they were asked to read about a fictional character and give their impression of them. The test was then repeated using an iced coffee drink.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; padding: 0px\">The psychologists found the volunteers perceived the fictional strangers as significantly warmer characters after holding the hot drink. When ranked on a scale from one to seven, with one being cold and seven being warm, they rated people on average 11% warmer after holding the hot drink.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2008\/oct\/24\/psychology-health-food-science-colorado\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at the Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the Guardian UK\u00a0 Hot drinks encourage warmer feelings Ian Sample, science correspondent The Guardian,\u00a0 Friday October 24 2008 A steaming hot drink may be all it takes to see the world through rose-tinted glasses, psychologists have found. Holding a warm cup of coffee was enough to make people think strangers were more welcoming and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}