Our social intuition is strong. Here is one of my favorite quotes on this topic, by Sigmund Freud:
Psychological discernment is not as difficult as one might think: Those who have eyes to see and ears to hear soon become convinced that mortals cannot keep a secret. He whose lips are sealed talks with his fingertips; disclosure oozes out of his every pore.
“Fragment of an Analysis of Hysteria” (1901-5), VI, 148
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