Long nights alone at the office? Grab the hot coffee…it’s not just for the caffeine.
Friday night home alone? Some hot chicken soup may do the trick. You don’t have to wait for a cold.
Getting the cold shoulder from co-workers because you got that promotion?
How about a big bowl of comforting, piping hot mac and cheese?
Social isolation makes people feel physically cold, find University of Toronto psychologists Chen-Bo Zhong, PhD, and Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, PhD.
Moreover, they find that making people feel left out makes them more likely to choose hot soup or coffee over warm or room-temperature foods and beverages."It's striking that people preferred hot coffee and soup more when socially excluded," Leonardelli says in a news release.
"Our research suggests that warm chicken soup may be a literal coping mechanism for social isolation."
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Pointing to the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, they suggest that "eating warm soup may be a literal coping mechanism for social exclusion."
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Come on...you know you want a big bowl of ice cream...
