Why Keeping a Secret Can Do More Harm Than Good with Michael Slepian

Jun 9, 2022

How many secrets do you have? Did you know that most peoples' secrets fall into 38 categories? 

Michael Slepian, the leading expert on the psychology of secrets on what secrets hurt most, the emotional and physical costs to keeping secrets, the 3 dimensions of a secret and sharing your secrets with a special chosen person is helpful. 

SOME KEY POINTS

• The difference between secrets and privacy
• Age and development, can babies keep secrets or when do children’s first efforts at keeping secrets emerge? 
• Can people tell if we are keeping a secret? 
• To confess or not to confess, what are the consequences of confiding? 
• Is there a value of sharing our secrets? and does the person whom we chose to share our secret with matter? 
• And so much more

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The Secret Life of Secrets 

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