Kalut - Photo Series

Overwhelmed by her new environment, Kala keeps on feeling tense in her space, creating chaos inside her. She withdraws into her garments, embrace her newfound confidence, and despite all the inner havoc, she decided to move forward.

Adam and Galinsky coined the term 'enclothed cognition' and explained that clothes that we wear have an effect on our psychological processes. We respond to the symbolic meaning of the clothes and bodily experience when the clothes touched our skin directly. This short film is a practical outcome exploring the interaction between enclothed cognition with several cognitive sciences and social psychology studies.