To figure this out psychologist Matthias Mehl came up with a clever way to track the impact of our conversations on our mood: his team wired up participants with a small recording device that
captured snippets of their conversations every 12.5 minutes over four days.
Not exact matches
He
captures snippets of their charming, often profane
conversations, cutting from one day to the next to create a slice -
of - life story that only begins to take on a narrative aspect around the halfway mark.
Recent volumes have become attempts at
capturing the acoustic nature
of this world in transit, the
snippets of overheard
conversation, the plea
of the beggar, the muttering
of the insane, the announcements
of the conductor and the screech
of the braking train.