![]() ![]() Shallow questions included typical small-talk topics, such as, "What is the best TV show you've seen in the last month? Tell your partner about it," or "What do you think about the weather today?" Deep questions elicited more personal and intimate information, such as, "Can you describe a time you cried in front of another person?" or "If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, your future or anything else, what would you want to know?" In other experiments, people generated their own deep and shallow conversation topics. In some experiments, people received shallow or deep questions to discuss. The researchers asked pairs of people-mainly strangers-to discuss either relatively deep or shallow topics. Kumar and his colleagues, Michael Kardas of Northwestern University and Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago, designed a series of 12 experiments with more than 1,800 total participants. The findings appear in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "But we'd likely be happier if we dug deeper when we're interacting with others." "We wrongly assume that other people are somewhat indifferent towards us, so we avoid more intimate conversation, thinking it would be awkward," said Amit Kumar, an assistant professor of marketing at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business and co-author of the study. The findings have important practical implications, especially as the pandemic wanes and people become more social again. ![]()
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