There is an increasingly prevalent expectation in contemporary society that employees be
passionate for their work. Here, we suggest that employers and employees can have …

The concept of secrecy calls to mind a dyadic interaction: one person hiding a secret from
another during a conversation or social interaction. The current work, however …

Existing wisdom holds that secrecy is burdensome and fatiguing. However, past research
has conflated secrecy with the kinds of adverse events that are often kept secret. As a result …

The lion's share of research on secrecy focuses on how deciding to keep or share a secret
impacts a secret‐keeper's well‐being. However, secrets always involve more than one …

Secrecy is a common and consequential human experience, and yet the literature lacks an
integrative theoretical model that captures this broad experience. Whereas initial research …

Recent work suggests that what is harmful about secrecy is not active concealment within
social interactions but rather mind wandering to a secret outside of concealment contexts …

Prior research on secrecy has examined the effects of keeping one's own secrets, but
people keep others' secrets too. The present work presents the first examination of the …

Secrecy is common and psychologically costly. Research shows that secrets have high
emotional stakes, but no research has directly tested how people regulate their emotions …

Past research has conceptualized secrecy as speech inhibition during social interaction. In
contrast, the current research broadens the understanding of secrecy by conceptualizing it …

Keeping negative interpersonal secrets can diminish well-being, yet people nevertheless
keep negative information secret from friends, family, and loved ones to protect their own …