This year’s event, in partnership with Northwell’s Katz Institute for Women’s Health, featured an array of voices discussing the state of women’s health now and in the future.

What we wear affects how we behave, think, and perform—a concept psychologists call “ enclothed cognition.” Clothes carry meaning, and we absorb that meaning when we put them on.

In a paper published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Adam Galinsky and his co-author Hajo Adam coined the term “enclothed cognition”, which describes the systematic influence ...

This notion is referred to as “enclothed cognition” – the idea that clothing can make you feel “abstract concepts and their symbolic meanings,” according to Science Direct. Galinsky tested this theory ...

Here’s how to leverage the power of enclothed cognition to enhance how you feel and perform while developing your personal style.

There’s even a science-y term for this phenomenon: enclothed cognition. A study in 2012 involved giving participants a white lab coat, but telling half of them it was a painter’s jacket and ...

This is a phenomenon known as “enclothed cognition,” which can influence levels of confidence, attention span and abstract thinking abilities. For example, a lab coat can symbolize intelligence and ...

Enclothed Cognition Research has long demonstrated that the clothing we wear affects how other people perceive us. Surprisingly, perhaps, it also can change our own performance.

The following experiment reaffirms the impact of enclothed cognition, with respect to the perception of a coat. Participants were selected to complete a task while wearing one of the following: ...