Article: SHHHH! I'VE GOT GOSSIP.(FEATURES)

Article: Gossip's beguiling ways carry heavy price
Daily Breeze;  August 4, 2005 ;     526 words ...Gossip whispers, never sings. Gossip entices you to feed it in return. Gossip celebrates vulnerabilities rather than victories. Whether queen bee or king bee, Gossip reigns in every workplace, every PTA, every neighborhood. Gossip asks for ...

Article: Gossip as pleasure, pursuit, power, and plot device in ...
Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Parsonage, Highbury gossips, match-making, whispers ... or overhearing others gossip, or conspicuously abstaining ... distinguishes between casual gossip--harmless small talk ... intimacy--and serious gossip "which exists only as ... more than two or three people. Its participants use ...

Article: 'Gossip helps glue society together'.(News)
Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  August 3, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... write comments about other people (a form of gossip). that the more gossip there ... about whom they read positive gossip than with people about whom they read negative ... private dealings of other people. Thus gossip helps to glue society together ...

Transcript: Analysis: Gossip can be good for you
Talk of the Nation (NPR);  August 25, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... stabbing talk about other people. But people say nice things about ... We should call that gossip, too, because it is ... and hate crimes, and gossip is a form of social control ... s a way of bringing people into line, those people ...

Article: What gossip's good for
International Herald Tribune;  August 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... group interaction.People find gossip irresistible for good ... content and frequency of gossip are universal: People devote anywhere from ... like how reliable people are, how trustworthy ... Not participating in gossip at some level can be ...

Article: WHY GOSSIP IS GOOD IT DOESN'T HURT TO DISH A LITTLE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... gossip, and there's bad gossip. ``People say nice things about ... In the case of much gossip, we're talking about people that matter to us ... the things that makes gossip so dangerous, potentially. People are interested in hearing ...

Article: Tackling gossip and rumour issues in office
New Straits Times;  October 9, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... But when the gossip mill begins to grind people up and ruin their ... Men often use gossip as a form of political ... important. When people aren't fully ... workplace, where people come and go, and ... and superficial. Gossip usually takes two ...