There is a difference between keeping a secret and having a secret. “We expected that people would be thinking about their secrets far more than they hide secrets – it doesn’t have to be that way,” said Slepian. “It could do with having more time in the day to think about a secret, thoughts to hide a secret. You can only hide a secret when you’re specifically in front of that person.”The question he now aims to answer is “why” and how they can change the way people think about a secret. It could be because people are simply not prepared for how much time they spend thinking about the secret, he hypothesized.

Source: National Post May 31, 2017 19:07 UTC