414: Keeping secrets can harm your health | Psychologist Michael Slepian, Ph.D.

Michael Slepian, Ph.D.: “As isolating as it can feel to have a secret, we all keep secrets and we all keep the same kinds of secrets.”

Slepian, a psychologist and associate professor of leadership and ethics at Columbia Business School, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how keeping secrets affects your body and brain, plus:

- The surprising secrets most people keep (~13:32)

- How to know who you can trust to keep a secret (~16:39)

- Why our secrets are all universal (~21:00)

- How secrets have evolved in our culture (~24:36)

- How to identify a healthy secret (~27:08)

Referenced in the episode:

- Slepian's book, The Secret Life Of Secrets.

- Read more about Slepian's research on secret-keeping.

- Slepian's research on how confiding secrets affects well-being.

- Take Slepian's survey to learn more about your own secrets.

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