保守秘密会对幸福生活产生不利影响

Everyone has secrets – and now we might know just how many.

每个人都有秘密,现在我们或许知道了你究竟有几个秘密。

A new study led by professor of management at Columbia Business School Michael Slepian, has looked into the secret-keeping habits of thousands of people – as well as examining a grand total of 13,000 secrets between them.

The research, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology1, looked at the secrets collected over the course of 10 previous studies to come up with 38 common categories, ranging from cheating on a test to hiding their sexuality to sleeping with another’s spouse2.

After breaking down the categories, the researches asked 2,000 participants to number the common secrets they are keeping that fit into the categories.

In the end, they found that the average person was carrying 13 of the 38 secrets at any one time. They also discovered that five of those 13 secrets have never been shared with another person.

The most commonly held secrets involved what researchers termed ‘extra-relational thoughts’, as well as sexual behavior, lying, and romantic desire. The researchers defined a secret as something they intended to keep from others.

The common secrets that people were less likely to keep to themselves were abortion3, marriage proposals and sexual orientation4.

In addition to the number and types of secrets people keep, the researchers also looked into the way keeping them affects behavior and health.

People become more concerned about the secrets they are keeping when they are alone than when actively5 hiding them from people they are interacting with.

Like other studies before it, the researchers also found that keeping secrets can have detrimental6 consequences for a person’s well-being7. In particular, they examined how participants reported feeling inauthentic when they mused8 on the secrets that burdened them.

1 psychology U0Wze

n.心理,心理学,心理状态
参考例句:
She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
2 spouse Ah6yK
n.配偶(指夫或妻)
参考例句:
Her spouse will come to see her on Sunday.她的丈夫星期天要来看她。
What is the best way to keep your spouse happy in the marriage?在婚姻中保持配偶幸福的最好方法是什么?
3 abortion ZzjzxH
n.流产,堕胎
参考例句:
She had an abortion at the women’s health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
4 orientation IJ4xo
n.方向,目标;熟悉,适应,情况介绍
参考例句:
Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。
5 actively lzezni
adv.积极地,勤奋地
参考例句:
During this period all the students were actively participating.在这节课中所有的学生都积极参加。
We are actively intervening to settle a quarrel.我们正在积极调解争执。
6 detrimental 1l2zx
adj.损害的,造成伤害的
参考例句:
We know that heat treatment is detrimental to milk.我们知道加热对牛奶是不利的。
He wouldn’t accept that smoking was detrimental to health.他不相信吸烟有害健康。
7 well-being Fe3zbn
n.安康,安乐,幸福
参考例句:
He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福,却被误解为多管闲事。
8 mused 0affe9d5c3a243690cca6d4248d41a85
v.沉思,冥想( muse的过去式和过去分词 );沉思自语说(某事)
参考例句:
\”I wonder if I shall ever see them again, \”he mused. “我不知道是否还可以再见到他们,”他沉思自问。 来自《简明英汉词典》
\”Where are we going from here?\” mused one of Rutherford’s guests. 卢瑟福的一位客人忍不住说道:‘我们这是在干什么?” 来自英汉非文学 – 科学史

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