Have you ever impulsively blurted out “I love you” or something similarly awkward in the minutes following sex? Now you can blame it on science.
New research published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin has found that even just thinking about sex makes you more inclined to disclose things about yourself. You can thank our evolutionary need to build relationships with our sexual partners for your current day struggle to not say the wrong thing to the person you just met on Tinder.
The findings were actually the result of three separate studies, all of which used related methods. They each exposed participants to sexual stimuli — either consciously or subliminally — and then asked them to reveal a “personal event” to a stranger. The studies all found that thinking about sex made people more likely to reveal sensitive information about themselves. Read more...
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