Women, You Do Worse On Math Tests If You Wear A Bathing Suit

Saturday, May 31, 2014 - 14:20 in Psychology & Sociology

Everything you do changes your brain, even reading this sentence. A psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire believes that clothing impacts the way we think and literally changes our brains.We know some of this to be true; everyone has a favorite outfit they look good in and that makes them feel more confident.  Professor Pine's data consists of things like asking psycology students to put on a Superman t-shirt. They declared it made them have better impressions of themselves and that they felt physically stronger. To most people, that says psychology undergraduates are as mentally developed as four-year-olds but to Pine it became a book, Mind What You Wear: The Psychology of Fashion. read more

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