‘Type 5683 on phone to feel love’
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Want to feel love? Just type in 5683 on your mobile phone!
A new German study has claimed that by typing the numbers on a phone keypad that correspond to the letters in a word like “love,” can activate the meaning of that word in our minds.
The study, published in journal Psychological Science, was conducted by Dr Sascha Topolinski and his students at the University of Wurzburg in Germany. For their research, Topolinski and his team created a list of German words that can be typed on a cell phone keypad without typing the same digit twice in a row. Also, each number combination could spell only one word.
In one experiment, they used a set of number sequences that correspond to positive words, such as 54323 for “liebe” or love, which in English would be 5683, and 373863 for “freund” meaning friend.
Similarly, the set of negative words were like 7245346 for “schleim” or slime and 26478 for “angst” or fear.
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