Editing Secrecy (section)

== Sociology ==
{{Main|Sociological aspects of secrecy}}
[[Animal]]s conceal the location of their [[Burrow|den]] or [[nest]] from [[predation|predators]]. Squirrels bury nuts, hiding them, and they try to remember their locations later.<ref>{{Cite web|last=November 2018|first=Emma Bryce-Live Science Contributor 17|title=How Do Squirrels Remember Where They Buried Their Nuts?|url=https://www.livescience.com/64104-how-do-squirrels-find-buried-nuts.html|access-date=2020-06-03|website=livescience.com|date=17 November 2018|language=en}}</ref>

[[Human]]s attempt to consciously conceal aspects of themselves from others due to [[shame]], or from [[fear]] of violence, rejection, harassment, loss of [[acceptance]], or loss of [[employment]]. Humans may also attempt to conceal aspects of their own [[Self (psychology)|self]] which they are not capable of incorporating psychologically into their [[Consciousness|conscious]] being.  [[Family|Families]] sometimes maintain "[[family secret]]s", obliging family members never to discuss disagreeable issues concerning the family with outsiders or sometimes even within the family. Many "family secrets" are maintained by using a mutually agreed-upon construct (an official family story) when speaking with outside members. Agreement to maintain the secret is often coerced through "shaming" and reference to family [[honor]].  The information may even be something as trivial as a [[recipe]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}
[[File:Moritz_Stifter_Das_Geheimnis_1885.jpg|thumb|upright|''The Secret'' (Das Geheimnis) by [[Moritz Stifter]], 1885]]
Secrets are sometimes kept to provide the pleasure of surprise. This includes keeping secret about a [[party#Surprise party|surprise party]], not telling [[spoiler (media)|spoiler]]s of a story, and avoiding [[exposure (magic)|exposure]] of a magic trick.{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}

Keeping one's [[strategy]] ''secret''{{Nbsp}}– is important in many aspects of [[game theory]].{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}

In [[anthropology]] secret sharing is one way for people to establish traditional relations with other people.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Manderson|first1=Lenore|last2=Davis|first2=Mark|last3=Colwell|first3=Chip|last4=Ahlin|first4=Tanja|date=December 2015|title=On Secrecy, Disclosure, the Public, and the Private in Anthropology: An Introduction to Supplement 12|journal=Current Anthropology|language=en|volume=56|issue=S12|pages=S183–S190|doi=10.1086/683302|s2cid=147148098|issn=0011-3204}}</ref> A commonly used{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} narrative that describes this kind of behavior is [[Joseph Conrad]]'s short story "[[The Secret Sharer]]".{{Citation needed|date=December 2008}}