| MOTIVE | SEXUAL BETRAYAL | BROKEN PROMISES |
| Self gain (gain rewards or avoid punishments) | fell in love with new person wasn't sexually satisfied by her boyfriend was sexually attracted to the new person | would be the center of attention at a party |
| Conformity | knew her friends did the same thing | knew most people would not keep such important information to themselves was urged by her friends to tell, since they sensed she knew some interesting information |
| Redressing perceived inequity | wanted to pay back her boyfriend for bad treatment knew that her partner had had sex with someone else | wanted to get even with friend who once betrayed her |
| Psychological or personality | was the kind of person who needed excitement and variety in her life was feeling very unhappy and thought it would make her feel better | was impulsive, unable to keep secrets |
| Autonomy | thought her sexual relations were her business and no one else's. | felt that she had to use her best judgment whether or not to keep the knowledge to herself |
| Prosocial | did this to make her new male friend happy | believed that telling the secret would enable the friend to get help that was needed |
| No Harm | knew her boyfriend would not be hurt by her behavior | told someone who did not know the friend revealed the secret without revealing the identity of the person |
| Avoid Detection | had done the same thing before and no one had found out was certain that no one would ever find out | was sure her friend would not find out had divulged other secrets before and gotten away with it |
| Challenge | wanted to see if she was attractive to others | |
| Involuntarism ("not my fault") | was under influence of drugs/alcohol and did not realize what she was doing got carried away and could not resist | was under the influence of drugs/alcohol hadn't meant to tell her friends' secret -- it just slipped out |
| Not party to agreement | never really wanted to be monogamous in the first place wanted to break up with her regular partner | had not wanted to be told the secret in the first place was no longer good friends with the person who told her the secret |
| Culture | was from a different culture where women are expected to have a variety of sexual experiences before they are married | was from a different culture where people routinely share information about others |
| Other | wanted to break up with her regular partner | thought it was relevant to a conversation she was having with friends knew her friend wouldn't do anything if she found out |