A new study shows that when you go to ask for a raise, yeah, that extra zero in your paycheck, consider getting your boss a hot cup of coffee (particularly their favorite flavor of coffee) and just make sure they're comfortable when asking for it. Or if they already have a cup of coffee, just make sure it's warm...
This is really fascinating to me and according to Fast Company, "This is all part of a larger area of study called “embodied cognition,” which is the concept that the brain is connected to the body and doesn’t act as if it is completely divorced from physical signals. In the case of the warm cup, researchers such as John Bargh of Yale did a series of experiments to prove that touching different objects has the power to influence perception."