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Research suggests self-disclosure is rewarding

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 08, 2012

A pair of Harvard researchers have begun to pry open one of the most basic questions about everyday existence: why do we talk about ourselves so much? We spend more than a third of our conversations disclosing our views, our feelings, our experiences, to others. The psychologists found that disclosing facts about oneself seems to trigger brain circuits that respond to rewards - such as food and money.

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