~*~ StrangerTalk ~*~
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A challenge to talk to strangers!!!
This app gives you missions to go talk to strangers and tracks how you feel about it. 🚀
⚡ How it works ⚡
- 1. Take a short survey about how you feel about talking to strangers
- 2. Pick a mission — find a stranger matching a description and talk to them
- 3. Before and after each conversation, log how you think it'll go vs. how it actually went
- 4. See how your attitudes shift over time 📈
🔬 About the research behind this (contains spoilers)
This app is based on Sandstrom, Boothby & Cooney (2022), who found that people are remarkably pessimistic about talking to strangers — they overestimate rejection, underestimate their conversational ability, and expect conversations to go worse than they actually do. A week-long scavenger hunt intervention reduced these fears, and the benefits persisted for at least a week after the study ended.
Your data stays on this device. 🔒
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