Title: How Your Clothes Affect Your Mood and Emotions | Reader's Digest
Headings: 10 Unexpected Ways Your Clothes Can Change Your Mood
10 Unexpected Ways Your Clothes Can Change Your Mood
Ponder this before you select your next office outfit or workout duds.
Your clothing can make you feel powerful
Your clothing can make you a better thinker
Your clothing can make you exercise harder (but make it feel easier)
Your clothing can make you smarter
Your clothing can make you focus better
Your clothing can help you get your way
Your clothing can make you more honest
Your clothing can make you want to work out
Your clothing can cheer you up
Your clothing can make you lose weight
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

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Your clothing can help you get your way
This one’s for those who hate haggling over a car price or negotiating a house contract. ( Um, isn’t that everyone?) According to research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, your clothing can give you an edge in an argument. Subjects were divided into three groups: They dressed in either a suit, a pair of sweats, or were allowed to wear their own clothing. They were then put in a scenario where they had to negotiate. The people who were dressed better routinely trumped those who were dressed down. Even more interestingly, the men in sweats actually showed lower testosterone levels, which further reduced their aggression. iStock/JaysonPhotography
Your clothing can make you more honest
There may be a sneaky side effect of wearing knock-offs, according to a Harvard study published in Psychological Science. Researchers gave people fancy new sunglasses, telling half of a group they were designer while the other half was told they were counterfeit.