Are you looking to improve your romantic chances? Then get your date a steaming cup of coffee. That is the implication of a recent study by researchers from the University of Colorado and Yale University who wanted to see if there was any connection between physical and emotional heat.
To their surprise they found that people who held a cup of coffee for 10 to 25 seconds warmed to a perfect stranger. Holding a cup of iced coffee had the opposite effect.
“If you want to make a good impression, a fresh cup of coffee may bias the situation in your favour”, the study author Laurence Williams said.
Williams thinks it's no coincidence that we use the same word — warmth — to describe both a physical and an emotional experience. Somewhere in the brain, those two sensations are linked, he says.
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