Academic Publications
Slepian, M. L., Greenaway, K. H., Camp, N. P., & Galinsky, A. D. (in press). The bright side of secrecy: The energizing effect of positive secrets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 
Liu, Z., Kalokerinos, E. K., & Slepian, M. L. (2023). Emotion appraisals and coping with secrets. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,49, 1379-1301. 
Nguyen, C. & Slepian, M. L. (2022). Revealing secrets. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, 101425. 
Salerno, J. M. & Slepian, M. L. (2022). Morality, punishment, and revealing other people's secrets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 606-633. 
Slepian, M. L. (2022). A process model of having and keeping secrets. Psychological Review, 129, 542-563. 
Slepian, M. L. & Koch, A. (2021). Identifying the dimensions of secrets to reduce their harms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 1431-1456. 
Slepian, M. L., Greenaway, K. H., & Masicampo, E. J. (2020). Thinking through secrets: Rethinking the role of thought suppression in secrecy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46, 1411-1427. 
McDonald, R. I., Salerno, J. M., Greenaway, K. H., & Slepian, M. L. (2020). Motivated secrecy: Politics, relationships, and regrets. Motivation Science, 6, 61-78. 
Slepian, M.L., Kirby, J. N., & Kalokerinos, E. K. (2020). Shame, guilt, and secrets on the mind. Emotion, 20, 323-328. 
Slepian, M. L., Halevy, N., & Galinsky, A.D. (2019). The solitude of secrecy: Thinking about secrets evokes motivational conflict and feelings of fatigue. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45, 1129-1151. 
Slepian, M. L. & Moulton-Tetlock, E. (2019). Confiding secrets and well-being. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 472-484. 
Liu, Z. & Slepian, M. L. (2018). Secrecy: Unshared realities. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 124-128. 
Slepian, M. L., & Greenaway, K. H. (2018). The benefits and burdens of keeping others' secrets. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 220-232. 
Slepian, M. L., & Kirby, J. N. (2018). To whom do we confide our secrets? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44, 1008-1023. 
Slepian, M. L., & Bastian, B. (2017). Truth or punishment: Secrecy and punishing the self. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 1596-1611. 
Slepian, M. L., Chun, J. S., & Mason, M. F. (2017). The experience of secrecy. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, 1-33. 
Slepian, M. L., Masicampo, E. J., & Galinsky, A. D. (2016). The hidden effects of recalling secrets: Assimilation, contrast, and the burdens of secrecy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 27-48. 
Slepian, M. L., Camp, N. P., & Masicampo, E. J. (2015). Exploring the secrecy burden: Secrets, preoccupation, and perceptual judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, e31-e42. 
Slepian, M. L., Masicampo, E. J., & Ambady, N. (2014). Relieving the burdens of secrecy: Revealing secrets influences judgments of hill slant and distance. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5, 293-300.