Warm hands, warm hearts

I knew there was a reason that Ronni is so happy when holding hot chocolate (besides the chocolate, that is):

Hold­ing the hot cup, Wil­liams hy­poth­e­sized, would “prime” the sub­ject to have a more pos­i­tive ap­prais­al of a hy­po­thet­i­cal per­son they read about once they reached the test­ing room. In­deed, Wil­liams re­ported, those who had briefly held the hot cof­fee cup per­­ceived the tar­get per­­son as be­ing sig­nif­i­cantly “warmer” than did those who had briefly held the cup of iced cof­fee.