
How living with secrets can harm you, with Michael Slepian, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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How Does Your Research on Secrecy Affect Your Work?
When i first started researching secrecy, i was doing it in a sort of strange way. I was trind to learn about metaphor, which you mentioned earlier. And secrecy was just one example, this idea that peopil describe secrets as heavier or weighty or burdensome. So i had been doing that research for a couple of yearsn,. In fact, there was one particular day when i was giving my job talk to columbia. He is telling me that he's not my biological father. As you can imagine, that's very shocking to learn abouta but much later, i realized it's not the act of hiding and conversation that's very difficult, but its
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