Michael Slepian
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics
Management
B.A., Syracuse University; M.S. and Ph.D., Tufts University
Joined CBS in 2014
Office:
719
Uris
E-mail:
michael.slepian@columbia.edu
Fax:
212-854-3778
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
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.
Teaching
Spring 2020
Spring 2019
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Managerial Negotiations
(MBA)
Practical Research Tools
(PHD)
Spring 2017
Spring 2016
Spring 2015
Research
Journal articles
The solitude of secrecy: Thinking about secrets evokes motivational conflict and feelings of fatigue
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, N. Halevy, Adam Galinsky
Shame, guilt, and secrets on the mind
In Emotion
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, J.N. Kirby, E.K. Kalokerinos
Facial expressions of authenticity: Emotion variability increases judgments of trustworthiness and leadership
In Cognition
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, Evan Carr
Dehumanizing gender: The de-biasing effects of gendering human-abstracted entities
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): A.E. Martin, Michael Slepian
Confiding secrets and well-being
In Social Psychological and Personality Science
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, E. Moulton-Tetlock
Born that way or became that way: Stigma toward congenital versus acquired disability
In Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): K.R. Bogart, N.M. Rosa, Michael Slepian
Secrecy: Unshared Realities
In Current Opinion in Psychology
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Z. Liu, Michael Slepian
The benefits and burdens of keeping others' secrets
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, K. Greenaway
Future self-continuity is associated with improved health and increases exercise behavior
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
(2018)
Coauthor(s): A.M. Rutchick, Michael Slepian, M.O. Reyes, L.N. Pleskus, H. Hershfield
Perceiving groups: The people perception of diversity and hierarchy
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2018)
Coauthor(s): L.T. Phillips, Michael Slepian, B.L. Hughes
To whom do we confide our secrets?
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(2018)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, J.N. Kirby
An approach-avoidance motivational model of trustworthiness judgments
In Motivation Science
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, S.G. Young, E. Harmon-Jones
Choosing Fusion: The Effects of Diversity Ideologies on Preference for Culturally Mixed Experiences
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Jaee Cho, Michael Morris, Michael Slepian
The experience of secrecy
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, J.S. Chun, Malia Mason
The unique contributions of perceiver and target characteristics in person perception
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2017)
Coauthor(s): E. Hehman, C.A.M. Sutherland, J.K. Flake, Michael Slepian
Truth or punishment: Secrecy and punishing the self
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(2017)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, B. Bastian
The voiced pronunciation of initial phonemes predicts the gender of names
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, Adam Galinsky
Internalized impressions: The link between apparent facial trustworthiness and deceptive behavior is mediated by targets' expectations of how they will be judged
In Psychological Science
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, Daniel Ames
Exposure to variability in facial emotion influences beliefs about the stability of psychological characteristics
In Emotion
(2016)
Coauthor(s): M. Weisbuch, R. Grunberg, Michael Slepian
Social belonging motivates categorization of racially ambiguous faces
In Social Cognition
(2016)
Coauthor(s): S.E. Gaither, K. Pauker, Michael Slepian, Samuel Sommers
The hidden effects of recalling secrets: Assimilation, contrast, and the burdens of secrecy
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
(2016)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, E.J. Masicampo, Adam Galinsky
Sensitivity to perceived facial trustworthiness is increased by activating self-protection motives
In Social Psychological and Personality Science
(2015)
Coauthor(s): S.G. Young, Michael Slepian, D. Sacco
The cognitive consequences of formal clothing
In Social Psychological and Personality Science
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, S.N. Ferber, J.M. Gold, A.M. Rutchick
Exploring the secrecy burden: Secrets, preoccupation, and perceptual judgments
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, N.P. Camp, E.J. Masicampo
Cognition from on high and down low: Verticality and construal level
In Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, E.J. Masicampo, N. Ambady
Disentangling multimodal processes in social categorization
In Cognition
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian
Averted eye-gaze disrupts configural face encoding
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2014)
Coauthor(s): S.G. Young, Michael Slepian, J.P. Wilson, K. Hugenberg
Simulating sensorimotor metaphors: Novel metaphors influence sensory judgments
In Cognition
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, N. Ambady
Thin-slice judgments in the clinical context
In Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, K.R. Bogart, N. Ambady
Fluid movement and fluid social cognition: Bodily movement influences essentialist thought
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, M. Weisbuch, K. Pauker, B. Bastian, N. Ambady
Suppressing thoughts of evaluation while being evaluated
In Journal of Applied Social Psychology
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, M. Oikawa, J.M. Smyth
Relieving the burdens of secrecy: Revealing secrets influences judgments of hill slant and distance
In Social Psychological and Personality Science
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, E.J. Masicampo, N. Ambady
Nonverbal expressions of status and system legitimacy: An interactive influence on race bias
In Psychological Science
(2013)
Coauthor(s): M. Weisbuch, Michael Slepian, C.P. Eccleston, N. Ambady
Quality of professional players' poker hands is perceived accurately from arm motions
In Psychological Science
(2013)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, S.G. Young, A.M. Rutchick, N. Ambady
Handling ibuprofen increases pain tolerance and decreases perceived pain intensity in a cold pressor test
In PLoS ONE
(2013)
Coauthor(s): A.M. Rutchick, Michael Slepian
Proprioception and person perception: Politicians and professors
In Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, N.O. Rule, N. Ambady
Fluid movement and creativity
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, N. Ambady
The physical burdens of secrecy
In Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, E.J. Masicampo, Negin Toosi, N. Ambady
A memory advantage for untrustworthy faces
In Cognition
(2012)
Coauthor(s): N.O. Rule, Michael Slepian, N. Ambady
Embodied impression formation: Social judgments and motor cues to approach and avoidance
In Social Cognition
(2012)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, S.G. Young, N.O. Rule, M. Weisbuch, N. Ambady
Emotion contagion moderates the relationship between emotionally-negative families and abnormal eating behavior
In International Journal of Eating Disorders
(2011)
Coauthor(s): M. Weisbuch, N. Ambady, Michael Slepian, D.C. Jimerson
Gender moderates the relationship between emotion and perceived gaze
In Emotion
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, M. Weisbuch, R.B. Adams, Jr., N. Ambady
Mating interest improves women's accuracy in judging male sexual orientation
In Psychological Science
(2011)
Coauthor(s): N.O. Rule, K.S. Rosen, Michael Slepian, N. Ambady
Tough and tender: Embodied categorization of gender
In Psychological Science
(2011)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, M. Weisbuch, N.O. Rule, N. Ambady
The pen is mightier than the word: Object priming of evaluative standards
In European Journal of Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): A.M. Rutchick, Michael Slepian, B. Ferris
Shedding light on insight: Priming bright ideas
In Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
(2010)
Coauthor(s): Michael Slepian, M. Weisbuch, A.M. Rutchick, L.S. Newman, N. Ambady
Behavioral stability across time and situations: Nonverbal versus verbal consistency
In Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
(2010)
Coauthor(s): M. Weisbuch, Michael Slepian, A. Clarke, N. Ambady, J. Veenstra-VanderWeele
Chapters
The Big Two
In The Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
(2018)
Coauthor(s): A.E. Martin, Michael Slepian
Linking diverse resources for action control
In Self-Regulation and Ego Control
(2016)
Coauthor(s): E.J. Masicampo, Michael Slepian
Ideas and Insights
In The Media
How to Share Other People's Secrets without Ruining Lives
Some Men Share Their Secrets Only in Therapy
Trump Backers Who Were Afraid to Tell Their Loved Ones
'Secret' Voters Favored Trump over Clinton 2 to 1
New York Democrats Aim to Make Presidential Primary More Accessible
Press Releases
Awards And Honors
The Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) is an international scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychological research. Elected fellows are recognized for their substantial contribution to social psychology as an empirical science.
APS Rising Stars The Rising Star designation recognizes outstanding psychological scientists in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions.