Research on family systems and communication patterns found that children who are recruited into secret-keeping alliances ...

Imagine that you buy an item for $200 and tell your partner it was only $100. Harmless—or harmful? It depends. Did you push the limits or go over a budget you two agreed on? Did you do it to get even ...

Do you have a deep, dark secret? Edgar Allan Poe is popularly known for writing early-American horror stories. But for me, he is a social scientist who used fiction instead of theory and statistics to ...

Where you do you draw the line on keeping secrets when you’re married? A lifelong friendship meets a lifelong marriage, and suddenly the lines get blurry. One man expects a “bro code” where wives aren ...

Everyone has a secret. As a child, it might be something harmless, like a crush on the kid who sits in front of you on the bus. But as we grow older, our secrets tend to become more complicated. It ...