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From: NPR

Your Brain May Want That Bottle Of Soda Because It’s Easy To Pick Up

NPR:

Here at Goats and Soda, we can’t resist a good story about goats. (See our story about how you know if your goat is happy.) The same goes for soda.

So we were intrigued to learn that soda plays a part in a new book called How the Body Knows Its Mind by Sian Beilock, a psychologist at the University of Chicago.

Her book is about the ways in which our bodies affect our brains. To show how, Beilock did a study that sought to answer the question: When you decide whether or not you like an object, might you be making that decision based on how easy it is to pick the object up?

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