Group membership psychologically supports members against betraying secrets

Evidence

If they were a mere sum of unconnected individuals, the secret would soon be lost; but sociation offers each of them psychological support against the temptation of disclosure. Sociation counterbalances the isolating and individualizing effect of the secret which I have emphasized. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 8578

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Raskolnikov’s need for a third party (Porfiry, Sonya) to externalize guilt - sociation against the isolating effect of his secret crime. — connects to: Perpetrator-group members can benefit from crimes without committing them — Nyla R. Branscombe and Bertjan Doosje (eds.), Collective Guilt: International…, 2066