washing your hands and lying

washing your hands and lying

washing (your hands) decreases emotional arousal, as it decreased the diameter of subjects’ pupils.
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when people were instructed to lie, demonstrated that the more adversely consequential the lie was presented as being, the more washing subjects did.
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the immoral mouth-ers were more likely to pick a mouthwash sample; the immoral scribes, hand soap.
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subjects were told to recall an immoral act of theirs. Afterward subjects either did or didn’t have the opportunity to clean their hands. Those who were able to wash were less likely to respond to a subsequent (experimentally staged) request for help.
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What these studies show is that if those metaphorically dirtied hands have been unmetaphorically washed in the interim, they’re less likely to reach out to try to balance the scales.
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see also

metaphors and literal meaning
Disgust and Purity
PN Wie wir denken
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Chapter 15 Metaphors We Kill By

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