Michael Slepian

Associate Professor of Business: Management Division

Areas of Expertise: Decision Making & Negotiations Leadership & Organizational Behavior

Contact: Office: 311 Kravis; E-mail: [email protected]

Links: Personal Website; Curriculum Vitae

Michael Slepian is the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics in the Management Division of Columbia Business School. His program of research examines secrecy and trust. He studies the psychology of secrets and how keeping secrets affects two important variables that govern social and organizational life: trust and motivation. He has studied the consequences of keeping secrets, including how they change our behavior, judgments and actions. He studies the effects of both personal and professional secrets for the individual secret keeper as well as whether we can tell when others are concealing information from us.

Education: B.A., Syracuse University; M.S. and Ph.D., Tufts University

Joined CBS: 2014

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Type: Journal Article

Liu, Z. and Michael Slepian

. “Secrecy: Unshared Realities.”

Current Opinion in Psychology

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, (October 01, 2018):

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128

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Slepian, Michael and K. Greenaway

. “The benefits and burdens of keeping others' secrets.”

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

vol.

, (September 01, 2018):

220

232

Type: Journal Article

Rutchick, A.M., Michael Slepian, M.O. Reyes, L.N. Pleskus, and H. Hershfield

. “Future self-continuity is associated with improved health and increases exercise behavior.”

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied

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, (January 01, 2018):

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael and J.N. Kirby

. “To whom do we confide our secrets?”

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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, (January 01, 2018):

1008

1023

Type: Journal Article

Phillips, L.T., Michael Slepian, and B.L. Hughes

. “Perceiving groups: The people perception of diversity and hierarchy.”

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

vol.

114

, (January 01, 2018):

766

785

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, J.S. Chun, and Malia Mason

. “The experience of secrecy.”

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

vol.

113

, (January 01, 2017):

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Type: Journal Article

Hehman, E., C.A.M. Sutherland, J.K. Flake, and Michael Slepian

. “The unique contributions of perceiver and target characteristics in person perception.”

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

vol.

113

, (January 01, 2017):

513

529

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, J.S. Chun, and Malia Mason

. “The experience of secrecy. .”

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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113

, (January 01, 2017):

Type: Journal Article

Cho, Jaee, Michael Morris, and Michael Slepian

. “Choosing Fusion: The Effects of Diversity Ideologies on Preference for Culturally Mixed Experiences.”

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

vol.

, (January 01, 2017):

163

171

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, S.G. Young, and E. Harmon-Jones

. “An approach-avoidance motivational model of trustworthiness judgments.”

Motivation Science

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, (January 01, 2017):

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael and B. Bastian

. “Truth or punishment: Secrecy and punishing the self.”

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

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, (January 01, 2017):

1596

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Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael and Adam Galinsky

. “The voiced pronunciation of initial phonemes predicts the gender of names.”

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

vol.

110

, (April 01, 2016):

509

527

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael and Daniel Ames

. “Internalized impressions: The link between apparent facial trustworthiness and deceptive behavior is mediated by targets' expectations of how they will be judged.”

Psychological Science

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, (February 01, 2016):

282

288

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, E.J. Masicampo, and Adam Galinsky

. “The hidden effects of recalling secrets: Assimilation, contrast, and the burdens of secrecy.”

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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145

, (January 01, 2016):

Type: Journal Article

Weisbuch, M., R. Grunberg, and Michael Slepian

. “Exposure to variability in facial emotion influences beliefs about the stability of psychological characteristics .”

Emotion

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, (January 01, 2016):

957

964

Type: Journal Article

Gaither, S.E., K. Pauker, Michael Slepian, and Samuel Sommers

. “Social belonging motivates categorization of racially ambiguous faces.”

Social Cognition

vol.

, (January 01, 2016):

118

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Type: Journal Article

Young, S.G., Michael Slepian, and D. Sacco

. “Sensitivity to perceived facial trustworthiness is increased by activating self-protection motives.”

Social Psychological and Personality Science

vol.

, (August 01, 2015):

607

613

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, S.N. Ferber, J.M. Gold, and A.M. Rutchick

. “The cognitive consequences of formal clothing.”

Social Psychological and Personality Science

vol.

, (May 01, 2015):

661

668

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, N.P. Camp, and E.J. Masicampo

. “Exploring the secrecy burden: Secrets, preoccupation, and perceptual judgments.”

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

vol.

144

, (April 01, 2015):

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Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, E.J. Masicampo, and N. Ambady

. “Cognition from on high and down low: Verticality and construal level.”

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

vol.

108

, (January 01, 2015):

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael

. “Disentangling multimodal processes in social categorization.”

Cognition

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136

, (January 01, 2015):

396

402

Type: Journal Article

Young, S.G., Michael Slepian, J.P. Wilson, and K. Hugenberg

. “Averted eye-gaze disrupts configural face encoding.”

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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, (July 01, 2014):

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael and N. Ambady

. “Simulating sensorimotor metaphors: Novel metaphors influence sensory judgments.”

Cognition

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130

, (March 01, 2014):

309

314

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, K.R. Bogart, and N. Ambady

. “Thin-slice judgments in the clinical context.”

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

vol.

, (March 01, 2014):

131

153

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, M. Oikawa, and J.M. Smyth

. “Suppressing thoughts of evaluation while being evaluated.”

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

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, (January 01, 2014):

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, M. Weisbuch, K. Pauker, B. Bastian, and N. Ambady

. “Fluid movement and fluid social cognition: Bodily movement influences essentialist thought.”

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

vol.

, (January 01, 2014):

111

120

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, E.J. Masicampo, and N. Ambady

. “Relieving the burdens of secrecy: Revealing secrets influences judgments of hill slant and distance.”

Social Psychological and Personality Science

vol.

, (January 01, 2014):

293

300

Type: Journal Article

Weisbuch, M., Michael Slepian, C.P. Eccleston, and N. Ambady

. “Nonverbal expressions of status and system legitimacy: An interactive influence on race bias.”

Psychological Science

vol.

, (November 01, 2013):

2315

2321

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, S.G. Young, A.M. Rutchick, and N. Ambady

. “Quality of professional players' poker hands is perceived accurately from arm motions.”

Psychological Science

vol.

, (November 01, 2013):

2335

2338

Type: Journal Article

Rutchick, A.M. and Michael Slepian

. “Handling ibuprofen increases pain tolerance and decreases perceived pain intensity in a cold pressor test.”

PLoS ONE

vol.

, (January 01, 2013):

e56175

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, N.O. Rule, and N. Ambady

. “Proprioception and person perception: Politicians and professors.”

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

vol.

, (December 01, 2012):

1621

1628

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael and N. Ambady

. “Fluid movement and creativity.”

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

vol.

141

, (November 01, 2012):

625

629

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, E.J. Masicampo, and N. Ambady

. “The physical burdens of secrecy.”

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

vol.

141

, (November 01, 2012):

619

624

Type: Journal Article

Rule, N.O., Michael Slepian, and N. Ambady

. “A memory advantage for untrustworthy faces.”

Cognition

vol.

125

, (January 01, 2012):

207

218

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, S.G. Young, N.O. Rule, M. Weisbuch, and N. Ambady

. “Embodied impression formation: Social judgments and motor cues to approach and avoidance.”

Social Cognition

vol.

, (January 01, 2012):

232

240

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, M. Weisbuch, R.B. Adams, Jr., and N. Ambady

. “Gender moderates the relationship between emotion and perceived gaze.”

Emotion

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, (December 01, 2011):

1439

1444

Type: Journal Article

Weisbuch, M., N. Ambady, Michael Slepian, and D.C. Jimerson

. “Emotion contagion moderates the relationship between emotionally-negative families and abnormal eating behavior.”

International Journal of Eating Disorders

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, (December 01, 2011):

716

720

Type: Journal Article

Rule, N.O., K.S. Rosen, Michael Slepian, and N. Ambady

. “Mating interest improves women's accuracy in judging male sexual orientation.”

Psychological Science

vol.

, (July 01, 2011):

881

886

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, M. Weisbuch, N.O. Rule, and N. Ambady

. “Tough and tender: Embodied categorization of gender.”

Psychological Science

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, (January 01, 2011):

Type: Journal Article

Rutchick, A.M., Michael Slepian, and B. Ferris

. “The pen is mightier than the word: Object priming of evaluative standards.”

European Journal of Social Psychology

vol.

, (August 01, 2010):

704

708

Type: Journal Article

Slepian, Michael, M. Weisbuch, A.M. Rutchick, L.S. Newman, and N. Ambady

. “Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas.”

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

vol.

, (July 01, 2010):

696

700

Type: Journal Article

Weisbuch, M., Michael Slepian, A. Clarke, N. Ambady, and J. Veenstra-VanderWeele

. “Behavioral stability across time and situations: Nonverbal versus verbal consistency.”

Journal of Nonverbal Behavior

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, (January 01, 2010):

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Slepian, Michael and Adam Galinsky

. “The voiced pronunciation of initial phonemes predicts the gender of names.”

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

. Forthcoming.

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Martin, A.E. and Michael Slepian

. “Dehumanizing gender: The de-biasing effects of gendering human-abstracted entities.”

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

. Forthcoming.

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Slepian, Michael, N. Halevy, and Adam Galinsky

. “The solitude of secrecy: Thinking about secrets evokes motivational conflict and feelings of fatigue.”

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

. Forthcoming.

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Slepian, Michael and E. Moulton-Tetlock

. “Confiding secrets and well-being.”

Social Psychological and Personality Science

. Forthcoming.

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Bogart, K.R., N.M. Rosa, and Michael Slepian

. “Born that way or became that way: Stigma toward congenital versus acquired disability.”

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

. Forthcoming.

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Slepian, Michael, J.N. Kirby, and E.K. Kalokerinos

. “Shame, guilt, and secrets on the mind.”

Emotion

. Forthcoming.

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Slepian, Michael and K. Greenaway

. “The benefits and burdens of keeping others' secrets.”

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

. Forthcoming.

Type: Newspaper/Magazine Article

Slepian, Michael and Evan Carr

. “Facial expressions of authenticity: Emotion variability increases judgments of trustworthiness and leadership.”

Cognition

. Forthcoming.

Type: Chapter

Martin, A.E. and Michael Slepian

. “The Big Two.” In

The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

, edited by

V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford

New York

Springer

, Forthcoming.

Herschel Walker Lied about Things That Could Easily Be Found Out. Why Do People Do That?

NBC News

Type: In the Media

How to Share Other People's Secrets without Ruining Lives

Vice

Type: In the Media

Shhh! We're Heading Off on Vacation

The New York Times

Type: In the Media

Some Men Share Their Secrets Only in Therapy

The Atlantic

Type: In the Media

Taller Cubicles, One-Way Aisles: Office Workers Must Adjust

The Associated Press

Type: In the Media

Trailing Badly in Polls, Trump Points to 'Hidden' Voters and the 'Silent Majority' as Path to Victory

The Washington Post

Type: In the Media

We Are Going on Vacation in the Middle of a Pandemic (Don't Tell Anyone)

The New York Times

Type: In the Media

Why Were the Polls so Far off Again? Trump Voters Are Near Impossible to Predict

Fast Company