Horton, Adam, and Galinsky’s work with clothing can likely be extended to other situations with selected designed elements. They share that “Enclothed cognition refers to the systematic influence that clothes can have on the wearer’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors through their symbolic meaning. It has attracted considerable academic and nonacademic interest. . . To determine whether the larger body of research on enclothed cognition possesses evidential value and replicable effects, we performed z-curve and meta-analyses using 105 effects from 40 studies across 24 articles. . . . our results . . . affirm the evidential value for effects published after 2015. These later studies support the core principle of enclothed cognition—what we wear influences how we think, feel, and act.”
C. Horton, Hajo Adam, and Adam Galinsky. “Evaluating Evidence for Enclothed Cognition: Z-Curve and Meta-Analyses.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, in press, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231182478