Warm hands, warm heart
Friday, October 24th, 2008Want someone to warm to you? Give them a mug of hot coffee to hold. That’s the message from a recent study published in the journal Science (Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth. Lawrence E. Williams and John A. Bargh. Science 24 October 2008: 606-607). Maybe we should entertain prospective girlfriends or boyfriends or clients with a mug of hot coffee rather than a glass of champers? I guess overall warmth might work equally well. She might be cold just because she is cold. After all, as Rudyard Kipling put it, ‘ What men call gallantry and gods adultery is much more common where the climate’s sultry’.