Becker's Healthcare January 5, 2024
The fear of judgment can cause people to keep negative information about themselves from work colleagues. But oftentimes, those colleagues respond more positively to shared secrets than the discloser expects, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
The report was co-authored by Amit Kumar, PhD, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business; Michael Kardas, PhD, an assistant professor of management at the Stillwater-based Oklahoma State University; and Nicholas Epley, PhD, the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and director of the Roman Family Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
The researchers conducted...
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