PREPARE to be placed on a pedestal by those seeking to persuade you to care more for others. Positioning people at elevated heights can make them more compassionate, helpful, cooperative and charitable.
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Psychologists have become increasingly aware of the associations between physical states and mental concepts. Sanna says the effect he found is related to our conceptual connections between "up" and "good", but the exact mechanism connecting metaphorical associations in the brain to behavio...
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