oh. so you need your coffee in the morning//well, maybe you really do.

BEFORE I IMPLANT my arduously-researched two paragraphs about psychological dependencies on coffee, let's gorge:

classic.

look at that angle.

I'm LinkedIn.

ooh, switching it up now.

that's it.

okay, guy.

"you take cream, but that's okay."

Now, a sentimental account of your psychological dependence on coffee:

Another study followed 83 college students across two days to see if physical experience facilitated explicit memory recall (Kelemen & Creeley, 2003).  All participants were asked to drink a beverage before studying 40 pairs of words, with about half being given a caffeinated beverage and the remaining participants a placebo (Kelemen & Creeley, 2003).  Participants were also given one of the two beverages the next day, right before a an assessment testing memory of the words studied the day prior (Kelemen & Creeley, 2003).  Data showed that those who were given the same beverages, caffeinated or not, on both days recalled more word pairs than those who drank different beverages between days (Kelemen & Creeley, 2003).  

         

This study suggests that the ability to perform a task is influenced by the completion of tasks associated with it.  Despite societal beliefs and jests surrounding caffeine in the United States–that coffee enhances mental ability at no effort of the consumer–a “need” for coffee may be created through more than a chemical dependence.  The act of drinking coffee in the morning may enhance the individual’s apparent cognitive ability by simply fulfilling the necessitation of routine.  Ironically, modular views are aided by the perception of the mind as independent of the body–that is, unless a foreign substance is introduced.  Here, embodied cognition triumphs the mind over the body. 

*******the above was extracted from Sarah Simon's term paper