Shame, guilt, and secrets on the mind

Title: Shame, guilt, and secrets on the mind
Creator: Slepian, Michael L.; Kirby, James N.; Kalokerinos, Elise K.
Relation: ARC.DE180100352 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE180100352
Relation: Emotion Vol. 20, Issue 2, p. 323-328
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000542
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2020
Description: 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. However, it is not yet clear what predicts mind wandering to and concealing secrets. We proposed that emotional appraisals of shame and guilt for secrecy would predict how secrecy is experienced. Four studies with 1,000 participants keeping more than 6,000 secrets demonstrated that shame was linked with increased mind wandering to the secret. Guilt, in contrast, was linked with reduced mind wandering to the secret. The current work represents the first test of how emotions from secrecy determine how that secrecy is experienced.
Subject: secrecy; mind wandering; concealment; shame and guilt; well-being
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1438324
Identifier: uon:40576
Identifier: ISSN:1528-3542
Language: eng
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