题　目：Benign or Burdensome? The Impact of Hiding Friendships at Work

嘉　宾：Jingze Wang, PhD Candidate, University College London

主　持：范雪青, 助理教授, 上海交通大学

时　间：2025年10月15日（周五）15:30-17:00

地　点：上海交通大学 徐汇校区安泰楼A305室

内容简介:

Impression management and social network research highlight that employees are motivated to strategically shape how others perceive their social connections. Yet, past work presents imbalanced perspectives regarding the consequences of these tactics, with theory heavily emphasizing strategic advantages while overlooking potential psychological costs. Drawing on self-discrepancy theory, we argue that friendship hiding creates actual-ought discrepancies that impose psychological burdens through conflicts between concealing genuine relationships and maintaining authenticity and honesty. Using a within-person perspective across two experience-sampling investigations tracking knowledge-sharing professionals over two workweeks (NStudy 1 = 132, Ndaily = 1,203; NStudy2 = 185, Ndaily = 1,375 afternoon and 1,413 night), results reveal that concealing friendships triggers psychological dirtiness, which serves as a key mechanism linking friendship hiding to negative experiences after work. Specifically, in Study 1, daily friendship hiding was associated with higher feelings of psychological dirtiness. Study 2 replicated this effect and further showed that psychological dirtiness statistically mediated the relationship between friendship hiding and both perceived status threat and rumination, and was marginally linked to reduced sleep quantity. Although striving to appear affiliated with a desirable circle of colleagues may seem benign or even common in organizational life, our findings demonstrate that hiding friendships exacts meaningful psychological costs.

演讲人简介：

Jingze Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in Management at University College London, School of Management. His research centers on how individuals navigate social and technological challenges at work. Within this broader focus, his work develops along two streams. The first stream examines social networks and interpersonal perception, with particular attention to how individuals manage others' impressions of their friendships and broker connections in organizational settings. The second stream explores emerging technologies and organizational life, focusing on how generative artificial intelligence reshapes people’s perceptions and interpersonal processes.

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