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SUBMITTER: John LK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4743808 | biostudies-other | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160111 4
Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information, and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information--to be "hiders"--they are judged negatively by others (experiment 1). These negative judgments emerge when hiding is volitional (experiments 2A and 2B) and are driven by decreases in trustworthiness engendered by decisions to hide (experiments 3A and 3B). Moreover, hiders do not intuit these negative consequences: given the choice ...[more]