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  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Keeping secrets is often linked to reduced well-being.
  • A common assumption is that individuals actively suppress thoughts of their secrets.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether individuals seek to engage with or suppress thoughts of their secrets.
  • To examine the relationship between secret importance, thought engagement/suppression, and well-being.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of over 11,000 real-world secrets across four studies.
  • Assessment of participants' strategies for engaging with or suppressing secret-related thoughts.
  • Examination of the temporal focus of thoughts and its effect on well-being.

Main Results:

  • Individuals tend to engage with thoughts of significant secrets and suppress thoughts of trivial secrets.
  • The strategy to suppress thoughts of a secret did not correlate with thinking about it.
  • The strategy to engage with thoughts of a secret predicted thinking about it.
  • Focusing on past events related to secrets exacerbated negative well-being.

Conclusions:

  • People do not universally suppress secrets; they actively engage with significant ones.
  • Engagement strategies are more predictive of thinking about secrets than suppression strategies.
  • The temporal focus of thoughts about secrets influences their impact on well-being.