"Did you Hear?"(9/18/2006) looked at gossip as a form of aggression, barely scratching the surface of positive news shared between friends. In a column also called "Did you hear?" (5/11/2007), Gail Rosenblum of the Minneapolis-St Paul Star Tribune looks at research into the truly neutral nature of gossip, neutral in content and in gender. A ( Read more... )

Common wisdom holds that men are more aggressive than women. However, this may be an artifact of how aggression is defined. Björkqvist (1994, review) suggests that women are only less aggressive than men directly, and that in indirect aggression measures, women seem to be more aggressive than men. Examples of indirect aggression given were " ( Read more... )