Jana wants to know if people are more likely to judge someone else as being trustworthy if they are told to stand with their arms open wide than if they are standing with their arms crossed.She thinks that this will prime participants' schemas for openness or being closed off such that people primed with openness will be emotionally open to trust others.Jana is studying

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Jana is studying embodied cognition, which is the idea that our bodily sensations and movements can influence our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. By manipulating the posture of the participants, Jana is trying to alter their embodied cognition and see if it affects their judgments of trustworthiness.

Jana Wants to Know If People Are More Likely to Judge