Secret Telephone - Get Something Off Your Chest

In a series of studies, michael asked people to think about secrets and then asked them to judge the deepness of hills or other physical tasks. Volunteers judged hills as steeper and distances as further when they were burdened with a secret. It's as if the secret had spilled into the physical world and was weighing them down. In twenty nineteen, michael took part in a project led by new york city based organization subway therapy, to explore this very idea. The study involved setting up a telephone booth in central park - but it wasn't just any telephone booth. And if you picked up the receiver, you could listen to secrets people had previously shared with the phone, and you...