Warm hands, warm heart

October 24, 2008

Scientists at Yale University have found that giving someone a hot cup of coffee to hold, made them warm up to a stranger. But giving volunteers a cold drink to hold had the opposite effect.

Another study gave students either a cold pack or a heating pad. Students with a heating pad were more likely to give a gift . The students with the cold pack were more likely to keep the gift for themselves.

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