THE ALLURE OF SECRET RELATIONSHIPS

Citation
Dm. Wegner et al., THE ALLURE OF SECRET RELATIONSHIPS, Journal of personality and social psychology, 66(2), 1994, pp. 287-300
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Social
ISSN journal
00223514
Volume
66
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
287 - 300
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3514(1994)66:2<287:TAOSR>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
Two surveys and a laboratory experiment examined the role of secrecy i n attraction to relationships. In the first survey, respondents report ed that past relationships they currently continued to think about wer e more likely to have been secret than ones they no longer pondered. I n the second survey, those respondents who indicated that a past relat ionship had been secret also reported that it continued to be a target of their obsessive preoccupation. The laboratory experiment explored attraction between mixed-sex couples who were induced to play footsie under a table in the presence of another couple. When this was secret, greater attraction for the partner was reported than when it was not.