Sometimes a sweet secret flickers through the mind. It bounces around like a rubber ball, bouncing against the inner walls of reason and wanting to: burst out! Get it out there, let everyone know, get the news! But there are many and sometimes even good reasons to keep good news to yourself. For example, in the case of pregnancy, most couples wait about three months before announcing the news because the risk of miscarriage is highest in the first twelve weeks. Hardly anyone blurts out their joy about a pay rise during lunch in the canteen, who knows how their colleagues would react. Or someone has bought a luxury item for an absurd amount of money and is now quietly happy – the true price should remain a secret. If you keep sweet secrets of this and other kinds to yourself, you might be giving yourself a little boost: keeping positive news to yourself gives you energy, lifts your mood and inspires you, say researchers led by Michael Slepian from Columbia University, who have just the evidence for this in an in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology present published study.
Psychology: Sweet Secrets – Knowledge
