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The Social Consequences of Keeping a BIG Secret
Yla R. Tausczik Cindy K. Chung
James W. Pennebaker
The University of Texas at Austin
SPSP January 19, 2013
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What are the Social Consequences of Keeping a "BIG Secret?
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Secrets
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Hypotheses
Individual Level Social Withdrawal Hypothesis
OR Hypervigilance Hypothesis
System Level Secrets will alter relationships, with or without
others knowing about the secret
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Social Network"
Secret Keeper
Secret Target
Confidant
Participant, doing phone sex
for money
Ex-husband, shares custody
Best-friend, tells about calls
Uninvolved
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Secret Keeper – Secret Target Relationship
Hypervigilance Monitor Act “normal” Avoid the secret
Social Withdrawal Withdrawal
Secret Keeper
Secret Target
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Secret Keeper – Secret Target Relationship
?
Withdrawal? Suspicion?
Secret Keeper
Secret Target
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Secret Keeper – Confidant Relationship
Confidant
Social withdrawal AND Hypervigilance Focus on secret
Secret Keeper
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Secret Keeper – Confidant Relationship
Withdrawal? Support?
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Confidant
Secret Keeper
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Method - Overview
Real world, large secrets
Many social ties
Communication over time
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Method - Participants
Recruitment: many online locations (facebook, craigslist, mechanical turk ...), flyers
1,014 screened, 179 met criteria Inclusion criteria: big secret, active gmail user ...
Exclusion criteria: suicidal, schizophrenic, deletes many emails ...
61 secret keepers 57.4% female
19 – 45 years old (mean = 25)
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Method – Procedure & Design
Questionnaires (secret keeping, personality, contacts…)
Provided a sample of incoming and outgoing emails 1 month before secret 1 - 11 months during secret
> 5 secret relevant contacts > 10 secret irrelevant contacts
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Method – Secrets
71% Romantic or sexual
32% Family, mental health, addiction
15% Financial, work
5% Physical health “I would be completely disowned and alienated from my family and some of my friends”
“Arrest, jail, maybe prison”
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Method – Email Corpus
1,014 Contacts, 67,000 Emails, 4.7 Million words
~32.9 Direct emails per contact
~70 Words per email
i finally got rid of dino ( I think); he sent me a text message at some point (a text message!) that said, ‘is it okay to tell you i miss you?’ and i told him i didn’t want to hear from him again until/unless his marriage is over. so that’s a relief. he just doesn’t seem to understand that if i’m not having sex with him, he’s of no use to me.
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Method - Analyses
Cleaned text Grouped by secret keeper – contact Processed with Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count
Weighted multi-level models
IV: Time (before, during) X Contact type DVs: Hypothesized language markers
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Results – Secret Keeper & Secret Target Relationship
Secret Target
Secret Keeper
Hypervigilance Emails per month Present tense
Social withdrawal
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Suspicion Emails per month Length of emails Question marks
Results – Secret Keeper & Secret Target Relationship
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Withdrawal
Secret Keeper
Secret Target
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Results – Secret Keeper & Secret Target Relationship
Secret Target Secret Keeper
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Results – Secret Keeper & Confidant "Relationship
Social withdrawal AND Hypervigilance Focus on secret
Struggling to find meaning Negative emotion words Past tense Insight words Causal words
Secret Keeper
Confidant
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Results - Secret Keeper & Confidant "Relationship
Withdrawal
?
Supportive Emails per month Length of emails Language Style Matching
Secret Keeper
Confidant
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“Of course, nothing will happen, but I still feel very very guilty. I had smaller crushes before, but nothing like that.”
Results – Secret Keeper & Confidant "Relationship
Secret Keeper
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Discussion
Individual Level Social withdrawal hypothesis
OR
Hypervigilance hypothesis
System Level
New Methodological Approach
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Discussion
Individual Level Social Withdrawal Hypothesis
OR
Hypervigilance Hypothesis
System Level
While keeping a secret secret keepers maintained and strengthened relationships
New Methodological Approach
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Discussion
Individual Level Social withdrawal hypothesis
OR
Hypervigilance hypothesis System Level
While keeping a secret secret keepers maintained and strengthened relationships
New methodological approach
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Research conducted with …
Paul Lee, Jennifer Landa, Rachel Greene, Maria Capecelatro, Nikki Vu, Lisa Arriaga
Many thanks to friends and colleagues who posted ads for our study!
Funded by the Department of Defense (HHM402-10-C-0100), Army Research Institute (W91WAW-07-C-0029), and National Science Foundation (NSCC-0904913)