Faculty
Anita E. Kelly
Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida
Profile
Dr. Kelly is interested in developing the interface between clinical and social psychology. More specifically, she studies secrecy, self-disclosure, and self-presentation in psychotherapy and everyday interactions.
Recent Papers
Kelly, A. E., & Yip, J. J. (in press). Is keeping a secret or being a secretive person linked to psychological symptoms? Journal of Personality.
Rodriguez, R. R., & Kelly, A. E. (in press). Health effects of disclosing personal secrets to imagined accepting versus non-accepting confidants. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.
Kelly, A. E., & Rodriguez, R. R. (2006). Publicly committing oneself to an identity. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 28, 185-191.
Kelly, A. E. (2004). Can we trust this new vision of trust? Contemporary Psychology, 49.
Kelly, A. E., (2002). The psychology of secrets. New York: Plenum.
Kelly, A. E., Klusas, J. A., von Weiss, R. T., & Kenny, C. (2001). What is it about revealing secrets that is beneficial? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 27, 651-665.
Kelly, A. E. (2000). A self-presentational view of psychotherapy: Reply to Hill, Gelso, and Mohr, and to Arkin and Hermann. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 505-511.
Kelly, A. E. (2000). Helping construct desirable identities: A self-presentational view of psychotherapy. Psychological Bulletin, 126, 475-494.
Kelly, A. E. (1999). Revealing personal secrets. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 8, 106-109.
Kelly, A. E. (1998). Clients’ secret keeping in outpatient therapy. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 45, 50-57.
Carter, J. E., & Kelly, A. E. (1997). Using traditional and paradoxical imagery interventions with reactant intramural athletes. The Sport Psychologist, 11, 175-189.
Kelly, A. E., & Nauta, M. M. (1997). Reactance and thought suppression. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23, 1123-1132.
Kelly, A. E., Kahn, J. H., & Coulter, R. G. (1996). Client self-presentations at intake. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 43, 300-309.
Kelly, A. E., & McKillop, K. J. (1996). Consequences of revealing personal secrets. Psychological Bulletin, 120, 450-465.
Kelly, A. E., & Achter, J. A. (1995). Self-concealment and attitudes toward counseling in university students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 42, 40-46.
Kelly, A. E., Coenen, M. E., & Johnston, B. L. (1995). Confidants' feedback and traumatic life events. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 8, 161-169.
Kelly, A. E., & Kahn, J. H. (1994). Effects of suppression of personal intrusive thoughts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 998-1006.
Kelly, A. E., Sedlacek, W. E., & Scales, W. R. (1994). How college students with and without disabilities perceive themselves and each other. Journal of Counseling and Development, 73, 178-182.
Strahan, R. F., & Kelly, A. E. (1994). Showing clients what their profiles mean. Journal of Counseling and Development, 72, 329-331.
Kelly, A. E., McKillop, K. J., & Neimeyer, G. J. (1991). Effects of counselor as audience on internalization of depressed and nondepressed self-presentations. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 38, 126-132.
Contact Information
Office: 218B Haggar Hall
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Phone: (574) 631-7048
Email: akelly@nd.edu