The benefits and burdens of keeping others' secrets

摘要: Abstract Prior research on secrecy has examined the effects of keeping one's own secrets, but people keep others' secrets too. The present work presents first examination experience secrets. Three studies (one correlational, two experimental) with more than 600 participants holding 10,000 demonstrate that being confided in brings relational benefits, is also a burden. closer one to confider, mind wanders toward secret, predicting increased feelings intimacy, secret overlap social network, conceals other's behalf, Experimentally shifting mentally accessible framing (to focus closeness or overlap) influences attributions made about in, as does meaning infer for why their (i.e., mind-wandering revisiting problem-solving). Being can be both burden and boost—pathways operate simultaneously independently from each other.