In Defense of Your Guilty Pleasures

I admit it: I have a guilty pleasure. Don't worry. It's nothing dangerous, nothing illegal, nothing that would make national headlines. But I'm still not going to tell you what it is. Not here, and probably not ever.

You have a guilty pleasure, too. You know exactly what I'm talking about—that thing you do on a consistent rhythm, maybe daily, maybe weekly, that you would never bring up at a work dinner. The thing you'd only tell a close friend after lowering your voice, glancing around and prefacing it with "don't judge me, but…"

Most of us have one. And the psychology behind why we have them, why we hide them and why we might desperately need them is far more interesting than I ever expected.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Psychology Today.