3 A wide range of research shows that how we are thinking about things (or experiencing them) influences our subsequent views. For instance, holding a warm cup of coffee, compared to a cold drink, makes people rate others as having more warm personalities. Or, when people are thinking about entities that are perceived as vertically high, like God, they later show greater memory for things that were high in their visual field. That is, people’s focus shifts towards remembering things that are consistent with what they are currently thinking about.