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...some helpful scientific advice: When that IRS agent comes to your office to conduct an audit, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you're sitting down to do your holiday shopping online, make sure you're cradling a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a chilly drink in hand serves as a brake on rash decisions - those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by two Yale-educated psychologists, published last week in Science magazine...
...Encountering warmth or cold lights up the insula - a walnut-sized section of the brain - says John A. Bargh, a professor of psychology at Yale, who co-authored the paper with Lawrence E. Williams of the University of Colorado who received his Ph.D. from Yale earlier this year. And the insula is the same part of the brain engaged when we evaluate who we can trust in economic transactions, Bargh says...
...Psychologists have known since the mid 1940s that one person's perceptions of another's "warmth" is a powerful determining factor in social relationships. Judging someone to be either "warm" or "cold" is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a "cold" person may be more competent. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when infants' conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth surrogate mother rather than one made...
Yannatos, who signs his student emails “hugs all around” and hosts a dinner at his home after each concert season, is unsurprisingly regarded with similar warmth by his students...
...parents named him Edward Schreck, but never before has there been a more fitting nickname for a man standing six feet seven inches tall than “Teddy.” Despite his towering stature, men’s heavyweight crew captain Teddy Schreck projects a warmth that engages anyone, whether he’s displaying Quincy House pride or working nights as a bartender. But do not make the mistake of assuming his easygoing nature is a weakness while on the water. Rowing brings out an edge in him that has helped him claw his way up during...