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Consequences of revealing personal secrets.

Anita E. Kelly, +1 more
- 01 Nov 1996 - 
- Vol. 120, Iss: 3, pp 450-465
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This article is published in Psychological Bulletin.The article was published on 1996-11-01. It has received 308 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Secrecy.

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Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers

TL;DR: Langer as discussed by the authors reviewed a series of experimental studies that demonstrate that individuals mindlessly apply social rules and expecta-tions to computers and demonstrate that people exhibit overlearned social behaviors such as politeness and reciprocity toward comput-ers.
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We Are What We Post? Self‐Presentation in Personal Web Space

TL;DR: This article examined the ways in which consumers construct identities by digitally associating themselves with signs, symbols, material objects, and places, and revealed insights into the strategies behind constructing a digital self, projecting a digital likeness, and reorganizing linear narrative structures.
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The psychological implications of concealing a stigma: a cognitive-affective-behavioral model.

TL;DR: A cognitive-affective-behavioral process model for understanding the psychological implications of concealing a stigma is offered and potential points of intervention and potential future routes for investigation are discussed.
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Coming Out in the Age of the Internet: Identity “Demarginalization” Through Virtual Group Participation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that membership in online newsgroups should become an important part of identity, and that membership should become part of a person's social identity in a relatively anonymous fashion.
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Intimate Exchanges: Using Computers to Elicit Self-Disclosure from Consumers

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the dynamics associated with soliciting intimate information from consumers via computers and provided evidence that intimate information exchanges can affect how consumers behave in subsequent interactions, and their implications for marketing research and practice are discussed.
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Stress, appraisal, and coping

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a detailed theory of psychological stress, building on the concepts of cognitive appraisal and coping, which have become major themes of theory and investigation in psychology.
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

TL;DR: For instance, in the case of an individual in the presence of others, it can be seen as a form of involuntary expressive behavior as discussed by the authors, where the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.
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The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation.

TL;DR: Existing evidence supports the hypothesis that the need to belong is a powerful, fundamental, and extremely pervasive motivation, and people form social attachments readily under most conditions and resist the dissolution of existing bonds.
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The Principles of Psychology

William James
TL;DR: For instance, the authors discusses the multiplicity of the consciousness of self in the form of the stream of thought and the perception of space in the human brain, which is the basis for our work.
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