Article: 'Gossip helps glue society together'.(News)

Article: SUZY in the CITY: BID GOSSIP HELPS B&B.(Business)
The Mirror (London, England);  July 16, 2002 ;     449 words ...Byline: SUZY JAGGER BRADFORD & Bingley was one of a handful of stocks yesterday which kept its head above water amid speculation that Barclays will buy it. Shares in the former mutual jumped to 312p before closing unchanged at 300p as dealers gossiped that Britain's fourth-biggest high street

Article: WHY GOSSIP IS GOOD IT DOESN'T HURT TO DISH A LITTLE ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  May 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... Georgia and coauthor of ``Rumor and Gossip.'' ``What they're doing ... to our lives,'' he said. ``Gossip helps us understand our world. One of ... playground, to adulthood, when gossip helps sort the good from the bad in the ...

Article: GOSSIP: FROM PICKING NITS TO NIT-PICKING.(BUSINESS)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  December 24, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... too large, that ritual was replaced by gossip or ``vocal grooming.'' And as studies ... workplace jungle. However, while some gossip helps us forge social ties and relieve our anxieties, harmful gossip accomplishes nothing but hostility ...

Article: SHHHH! I'VE GOT GOSSIP.(FEATURES)
Evening Herald (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  June 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... pointed out. One way of looking at it is that we all gossip -- it helps us make friends, bonds us with our friends ... definition of this particular female pastime reads; "We gossip because gossip helps us to establish, develop and maintain relationships ...

Article: Alonzo Weston: Gossip research seems just another way to ...
St. Joseph News-Press;  April 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... might not even need to take drugs if they would just gossip more. Gossip helps release endorphins, the body's natural pain-killing ... the researchers found benefits to even negative gossip. When we hear someone talk bad about someone else ...

Article: Have you heard what they're saying about gossip? Students ...
Saturday Evening Post;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... concluding that gossip may not be so bad after all. Gossip is "an intrinsically valuable activity," philosophy ... states in a book he has edited, entitled Good Gossip. For one thing, gossip helps us acquire information that we need to know that ...

Article: COLUMN: Good gossip gets it done
University Wire;  August 28, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... have also shown that not only is gossip universal, it can also be healthy ... article in the New York Times, "Gossip helps clarify and enforce the rules that ... York at Binghamton --- considers gossip "to be a very sophisticated, multifunctional ...