Michael Slepian
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Oct 16, 2026
Joe Saul-SehyHOST
Paula Pant, what's going on at the Afford Anything podcast?
Paula PantPANELIST
On the Afford Anything podcast, Columbia University professor, Dr. Michael Slepian, talks about the psychology of secrets.
Paula PantPANELIST
All of us have secrets, and many of them are related on this conversation around career.
Paula PantPANELIST
Many of them are related to career.
Krys BoydHOST
A few years ago on this show, we spoke to a psychologist whose research focused on secrets.
Krys BoydHOST
Michael Slepian and his colleagues at Columbia University had discovered that at any given moment, the average adult is keeping 13 secrets.
Krys BoydHOST
Our culture frowns on oversharing, and we tend to worry that blurting out highly personal or embarrassing details about our lives will hurt our reputations.
Krys BoydHOST
But could there also be a cost to under-sharing? From KERA in Dallas, this is THiNK.