From: Yahoo
Keeping a secret can be a real physical burden
April 5, 2012
Yahoo:
Feeling burdened by a secret? Does being sworn to secrecy make you feel sluggish and tied? That physical anguish isn’t all in your head.
A new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, found that secrets really do “weigh people down,” and not just mentally.
Michael Slepian, a researcher at Tufts University, found that in four different tests, keeping a secret proved to have real — and perceived — physical effects.
In the first test, Slepian and his colleagues found 40 people were told to recall a secret. They were then each asked to estimate the steepness of a hill. Those harbouring a meaningful personal secret believed the hill was steeper than those who merely recalled small secrets.
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