{"id":647,"date":"2006-09-08T18:43:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T23:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=647"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:40:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:40:15","slug":"they-were-right-about-cleanliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/they-were-right-about-cleanliness\/","title":{"rendered":"They were right about cleanliness!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No ideas but in things is more than a poet&#8217;s conceit. Case in point: according to this <em>Scientific American<\/em> article by David Biello, behavioral researchers Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto and Katie Liljenquist at Northwestern University are slowly documenting an overlap between the physical act of washing and a sense of being morally cleansed.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers are also interested in whether there&#8217;s a correlation between &#8220;environmental cleanliness&#8221; and behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the outside of the cup matters after all.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: link no longer works, sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No ideas but in things is more than a poet&#8217;s conceit. Case in point: according to this Scientific American article by David Biello, behavioral researchers Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto and Katie Liljenquist at Northwestern University are slowly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/they-were-right-about-cleanliness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,7],"tags":[1506,1508,1507,1509],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-spirituality","tag-chen-bo-zhong","tag-handwashing","tag-katie-liljenquist","tag-moral-cleansing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}