5 ways your clothes are subtly influencing the way you think and behave
It’s all about enclothed cognition.

“Dress for the job you want, not the job you have” and “look good, feel good” are just a few of the golden nuggets of wisdom we hear all the time.
While people may not believe in them, research suggests that there may actually be some truth in these sayings.
A recent campaign by fashion brand Long Tall Sally highlighted 76% of women in the UK admit to not having fashion confidence, but the good news is, researchers believe changing the way you dress could actually have a positive impact on your well-being.
We spoke to psychologist Tom Lloyd about how fashion can play a subtle role in influencing the way we think and behave and here are five things you need to know:
1. Your clothes can influence your actions
“However, today we’re seeing a rise in psychologists recognising and exploring the influence what we wear can have. For example, studies have recently revealed that what you wear can indeed influence how you act, by the fact people will embody certain traits and actions that they associate with certain clothing.
“An experiment asked a group of people to perform certain tests – one section of the group was wearing their ‘ordinary’ clothes and the other was told to wear a doctor’s white lab coat.
“The group wearing a doctor’s coat performed much better on the tests, leading psychologists to believe that this was because they were embodying how they felt a doctor would perform.