Gossip Statement
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A Gossip Statement is a rumor about another person.
References
2019
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip Retrieved:2019-4-2.
- Gossip is idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others; the act is also known as dishing or tattling. Gossip has been researched in terms of its origins in evolutionary psychology, which has found gossip to be an important means for people to monitor cooperative reputations and so maintain widespread indirect reciprocity. [1] Indirect reciprocity is a social interaction in which one actor helps another and is then benefited by a third party. Gossip has also been identified by Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary biologist, as aiding social bonding in large groups. [2]
- ↑ Sommerfeld RD, Krambeck HJ, Semmann D, Milinski M. (2007). Gossip as an alternative for direct observation in games of indirect reciprocity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(44):17435-40.
- ↑ Dunbar RI. (2004). Gossip in evolutionary perspective. Review of general psychology 8: 100-110. abstract