Inquiring Minds

The Powerful Ways Secrets Shape Your Life

Dec 9, 2022

39:28

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What Makes Secrets Harmful?

02:31

Sexual Infidelity

04:18

Can People Tell When You're Holding a Secret?

02:44

Introduction

3min

The Effects of Secrets on Our Well-Being

3min

The Secret Waxes and Wanes

2min

Why Do Our Secrets So Manyly Hurt Us?

2min

What Makes Secrets Harmful?

3min

Do You Ever Have a Secret Telephone?

2min

How Do Children Learn to Keep Secrets?

4min

Secrets in Kids - What's Essential in Order to Keep a Secret?

2min

Is There a Relationship Between Secrets and Mental Health?

3min

10.

Confession - Confidential Confidence

3min

11.

Is There a Predictable Reason Why Secrets Persist?

3min

12.

The Three Co-Opcoping Strategies That You Lay Out in the Book

3min

13.

Sexual Infidelity

4min

14.

The Secret Life of Secrets, How Our Inner Worlds Shape Well Being Relationships

2min

15.

Can People Tell When You're Holding a Secret?

3min

16.

Inquiring Minds - Episode 2

2min

This week we talk to behavioral scientist Michael Slepian about secrets: keeping them, telling them, and the powerful ways in which they influence our lives. His new book is The Secret Life of Secrets: How Our Inner Worlds Shape Well-Being, Relationships, and Who We Are.