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Article: The true colors of gossip
- Article from:
- The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
- Article date:
- February 27, 2006
- Author:
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Gossip is widely thought to be negative and to reflect poorly upon
the speaker. What is its role at work?
Kevin Kniffin, University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters
and Science honorary associate fellow, and David Wilson, professor of
Biological Sciences and director of the evolutionary studies program
EvOS, State University of New York at Binghamton, write in Human
Nature, a professional publication, that "gossip . . . include(s)
positive and negative talk about commonly associated people."
They maintain that it creates value for both the individual and
group, that it can reshape a person's behavior or prompt the
rejection of it altogether.
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