Codie SanchezFounder @ Contrarian Thinking

DON’T Just Text

1 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Codie Sanchez (YouTube creator) summarizes a study contrasting phone calls versus text messages between teenage daughters and their mothers. The video reports that hearing a mother’s voice raised oxytocin and lowered stress in the calling group, while texting produced increased cortisol and more anxiety, and closes with a direct recommendation to call one’s mother.

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I came across a study that completely changed the way I communicate. And yet, most people still make this same mistake. So researchers worked with a group of teenage girls, splitting them into two groups. Half of them were asked to call their moms and have a conversation. The other half, they just sent a text. Then scientists measured their hormone levels, and what they found was shocking. The girls who heard their mom's voice released a surge of oxytocin, the love hormone. Their stress levels dropped, and they felt calmer and more connected. The girls who texted they had the opposite effect. Their stress hormone, cortisol, actually went up. No oxytocin was released, leaving them feeling more anxious after the text message. Yet most people rarely pick up the phone to call. So take this as a sign to pick up the phone and call your mom also. You're welcome, mom, for making this video.