In 2012, the doctors Adam Galinsky and Hajo Adam conducted an experiment in which they had research subjects wear a white coat, and then tested them on their performance of various tasks. The subjects performed better on attention-related tasks, on average, when they were told the white coat was a doctor’s coat and when they had a preexisting sense that doctors wore white coats.
Enclothed Cognition
Enclothed Cognition
Enclothed Cognition
In 2012, the doctors Adam Galinsky and Hajo Adam conducted an experiment in which they had research subjects wear a white coat, and then tested them on their performance of various tasks. The subjects performed better on attention-related tasks, on average, when they were told the white coat was a doctor’s coat and when they had a preexisting sense that doctors wore white coats.