Gossip

May 16, 2007 09:00

"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... )

roy baumeister, books, gossip, gail rosenblum, star tribune, kate fox, communication, jack levin, arnold arluke, social issues research centre, interaction

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beowabbit May 16 2007, 15:14:44 UTC
Gossip is one of the things that has always turned me off of the idea of belonging to a community.
Interesting, since I think gossip is what creates a community - I don’t think you can have community without gossip ( ... )

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