Management Division, Columbia University.
Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2015 Apr;144(2):e31-42. doi: 10.1037/xge0000052. Epub 2015 Feb 9.
Recent work suggests that secrecy is perceived as burdensome. A secrecy-burden relationship would have a number of consequences for cognitive, perceptual, social, and health psychology, but the reliability of these influences, and potential mechanisms that support such influences are unknown. Across 4 studies, the current work examines both the reliability of, and mechanisms that support, the influence of secrecy processes upon a judgment that varies with diminished resources (i.e., judgments of hill slant). The current work finds that a manipulation of secret "size" fails to reliably predict judged hill slant, whereas measurement and manipulation of preoccupation with a secret does reliably predict judged hill slant. Moreover, these effects are found to be mediated by judged effort to keep the secret, consistent with a resource-based mechanism of the burdens of secrecy.
最近的研究表明，保密性被认为是一种负担。保密性负担关系将对认知、感知、社会和健康心理学产生许多影响，但这些影响的可靠性以及支持这些影响的潜在机制尚不清楚。在四项研究中，目前的工作既考察了保密性过程对资源减少（即判断山坡倾斜度）的判断的影响的可靠性，也考察了支持这种影响的机制。目前的工作发现，秘密“大小”的操纵并不能可靠地预测判断的山坡倾斜度，而对秘密的关注的测量和操纵确实能可靠地预测判断的山坡倾斜度。此外，这些影响被发现是由判断保守秘密的努力所中介的，这与保密性负担的基于资源的机制一致。
