On 2013 Dec 05, Etienne P Lebel commented:

Provocative findings, but note that we were unable to replicate Slepian et al.’s Study 1 finding in two extremely high-powered, preregistered studies that were very faithful to all procedural and methodological details of the original study (i.e., same cover story, study title, manipulation, measures, item order, scale anchors, task instructions, sampling frame, population, and statistical analyses). See LeBel EP, 2014 for full details (see here for pre-publication manuscript).

Though Slepian et al. reported three other studies supporting the secret burdensomeness phenomenon, we advise that these three other findings need to be independently corroborated before the general phenomenon informs theory or health interventions.

On 2013 Dec 05, Etienne P Lebel commented:

Provocative findings, but note that we were unable to replicate Slepian et al.’s Study 1 finding in two extremely high-powered, preregistered studies that were very faithful to all procedural and methodological details of the original study (i.e., same cover story, study title, manipulation, measures, item order, scale anchors, task instructions, sampling frame, population, and statistical analyses). See LeBel EP, 2014 for full details (see here for pre-publication manuscript).

Though Slepian et al. reported three other studies supporting the secret burdensomeness phenomenon, we advise that these three other findings need to be independently corroborated before the general phenomenon informs theory or health interventions.