What Does a Secret Weigh?
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This episode is supported by Prudential. *Voice of male narrator* "My lord. I love you:" "And durst commend a secret to your ear." "Much weightier than this work." Aside from Shakespeare's "Old English" flair those lines sound a lot like conventional wisdom. Secrets can be heavy Even today, we talk about how secrets can weigh us down. But is that just a saying? Or does it come from real, physical experience? In 2012, researchers developed a series of studies to test that metaphor: "Secrets can weigh us down." This first part asked people to recall and write either a small or large personal secret. Then they were asked to judge the sturdiness of a table, the durability of a water bottle, the te...
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This episode is supported by Prudential. *Voice of male narrator* "My lord. I love you:" "And durst commend a secret to your ear." "Much weightier than this work." Aside from Shakespeare's "Old English" flair those lines sound a lot like conventional wisdom. Secrets can be heavy Even today, we talk about how secrets can weigh us down. But is that just a saying? Or does it come from real, physical experience? In 2012, researchers developed a series of studies to test that metaphor: "Secrets can weigh us down." This first part asked people to recall and write either a small or large personal secret. Then they were asked to judge the sturdiness of a table, the durability of a water bottle, the te...
