Learn about why adding cold cream to your coffee keeps it hotter longer, why social identity can make people distrust the scientific consensus, and why you need self-compassion for self-improvement.

Why Adding Cold Cream to Your Coffee Keeps it Hotter Longer by Ashley Hamer

• The Physics of Coffee & Cream - Modernist Cuisine. (2012, December 12). Modernist Cuisine. https://modernistcuisine.com/mc/the-physics-of-coffee-cream/
• gb.facebook.com/thenakedscientists">https://en-gb.facebook.com/thenakedscientists. (2011). What loses heat fastest, a white or black surface? Thenakedscientists.com. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/what-loses-heat-fastest-white-or-black-surface
• Stefan-Boltzmann Law. (2017). Gsu.Edu. astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/stefan.html">http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/stefan.html
• Newton’s Law of Cooling. Math.Ubc.Ca. http://www.ugrad.math.ubc.ca/coursedoc/math100/notes/diffeqs/cool.html

Cultural Cognition Is Why People Don't Trust The Scientific Consensus by Ashley Hamer

• Cultural cognition of scientific consensus. (2011). Journal of Risk Research. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13669877.2010.511246

For self-improvement, you need self-compassion by author Kelsey Donk

• Give Yourself a Break: The Power of Self-Compassion. (2018, September). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2018/09/give-yourself-a-break-the-power-of-self-compassion
• Rawlings, R. (2019, October 21). How Compassion Bolsters Self-Improvement - Mind Cafe - Medium. Medium; Mind Cafe. https://medium.com/mind-cafe/how-compassion-bolsters-self-improvement-57d5db2c69be
• Chwyl, C., Chen, P., & Zaki, J. (2020). Beliefs About Self-Compassion: Implications for Coping and Self-Improvement. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 014616722096530. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220965303

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