A first of its kind study dug deep into the nitty-gritty of gossips and tried to answer questions like who gossips the most, what topics do people
gossip about, and how often people gossip.
Recent study explores nuances of gossips
A 2014 Dutch study reported that hearing
gossip about others made people more reflective.
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"Some would argue that
gossip about others' negative attitudes and behaviours may motivate the listener to regulate their own similar behaviours and helps them act in a more socially appropriate manner should they recognise some of the gossip patterns within themselves," added Dr Brown.
Is gossip harmful in a society?
"The only thing is, media should write interesting
gossip about me, that is good read," the actor added.
Link-up rumours make for boring gossip, says Sushant
The participants were asked to think about a woman who either frequently or rarely spread negative
gossip about other people in their conversations.
Un estudio comparativo de los rumores y chismes organizacionales, el engagement y las generaciones en el sector laboral en Puerto Rico
First, let's classify gossips into two: one is gossip regarding an employee while the second is
gossip about the company.
Gossiping in the workplace
Researchers noted that participants often warned others about a selfish member's behavior or spread good
gossip about someone.
Can gossip be good? (We don't mean juicy, but actually helpful.)
For example, an IS longing for a favorite home country food who hears
gossip about a "silly" student who went to a local grocery store expecting to find ethnic products may learn where to shop for home-country goods.
International student sociocultural adaptation: gossip and place attachment contributions
Epstein points out that "
Gossip about people judged to be acting badly can also be gossip that, as the social scientists have it, enforces a community's norms." Faced with a difficult or questionable moral choice, some ask "What would Jesus do?" Should we fail to live up to that rather high standard, as Franklin predicted we would, we may settle for a more consequentialist approach: "What will the World say of me, if I act thus?
Rumor has it
And because the story opens with
gossip about Cohn and continues with it all the way to Madrid, the fact that our narrator is a gossip columnist must bear in a minor way upon the novel's form.
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises: the novel as gossip
In particular, I refer to all the workers who
gossip about their bosses in every office where I have ever worked.
Off the record..
The preacher in Jacob's Well tells the Tutivillus exemplum on three occasions, and as Phillips makes clear, the tale is transformed to seem more like
gossip about his congregation by relating all the sins that the recording devil has captured in "this church." The transformative development of the exempla into idle talk is much more openly addressed and even knowingly used by Manning's Handlyng Synne, but there the narrator expresses a great deal of caution about blurring the boundaries between the two.
Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England
"My friends and I all
gossip about our other friends," another GL reader spills.
Gossip, girl! When GL wants dish, we hit up the most dependable sources. That's why we asked real readers to spill on what it is to be tangled up in the land of gossip. Because we don't want to risk misinterpretation, we're giving it to you word for word. And to avoid schoolwide verbal outbreaks, these gals will remain anonymous (kinda like the one who narrates on--what else?--Gossip Girl). Here's the dirt, straight up...
The most popular spot for having a
gossip about work colleagues is outside while smoking, according to a new report.
Just popping out for a little gossip..