Michael Slepian

Michael Slepian is Assistant Professor 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

• Stanford University (2012 — 2014)
• Ph.D. Tufts University (2009 — 2014)
• BA Syracuse University (2005 — 2009)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Columbia Business School
• Graduate Student Stanford University (2012 — 2014)
• Graduate Student Tufts University (2009 — 2011)