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The Powerful Ways Secrets Shape Your Life

Inquiring Minds

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Is There a Predictable Reason Why Secrets Persist?

Sally Kohn: I wanted to ask a follow up of the kind of maybe why secrets that make us anxious or have these feelings might persist and maybe speculate a little bit about evolutionary reasons. But when I think about, like, okay, in this case, let's use the term confiding to a priest, say, about all your moral transgressions. So next time I put it to a, you know, maybe this is just the teenage brain minus a prefrontal cortex, but it made it feel as if it was OK for me to do those things. She says she doesn't know of any research that shows that in the space of secrecy, we could totally predict that from other

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