Dial 5683 for love: Dialling certain numbers on a cell phone changes your emotional state

Thursday, February 17, 2011 - 12:30 in Psychology & Sociology

A psychological scientist in Germany has found a way that cell phones, and specifically texting, have hacked into our brains. Just by typing the numbers that correspond to the letters in a word like 'love,' we can activate the meaning of that word in our minds. The results are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science...

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