Studies have shown that a person's thinking becomes more abstract when the individual adopts formal, polite language. Turn
out a similar thing happens when people put on formal clothing. Findings from a
study led by Michael L. Slepian of Columbia University discovered that the nature of an everyday and ecologically valid
experience, the type of clothing worn, influences cognition broadly, impacting
the processing style that changes how objects, people, and events are
construed. (Abstract thinking facilitates the pursuit of long-term
goals over short-term gains; saving versus spending, for example.) Research
participants wearing formal attire scored 5.04 on a 1-to-10 scale
of a type of thought process that measures abstract thinking, versus 3.99
for those wearing casual clothing. My brain’s opinion is that this is just another example of the way in which
‘everything starts in the brain.’ It’s not only the brains of others that are
impacted by your appearance, your own brain is, too! Thinking about how you are impressing your own brain may be a new concept. But you may want to pay attention, seeing as it can impact even the way your brain functions . . .
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