Gossip And it may be a good thing the science behind why people

Gossip. All persons participating in some form, in spite of the old adage: “If you have to say something nice, do not say anything at all” Whether it’s chatter work, the sharing of family news or word group of friends, it is inevitable that anyone who speaks well, talks about other people. In fact, he found an observational study in 1993 male participants, 55% of talk time and 67% female participants spent spent the talk time “the discussion of social issues.” People tend to gossip as a synonym for gossip, put-downs or think breath diffusion of a tabloid scoop. But researchers often define in general, “speaking of people who are not present,” says Megan Robbins, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. “There is something very natural to us” – an integral part of the entertainment, information sharing and community building. “It’s not necessarily a bad thing,” adds David Ludden, a psychology professor at Georgia Gwinnett College and author of The Psychology of Language: An integrated approach. “It can be positive or neutral.” In a 2019 meta-analysis published in the journal Psychological Social and Personality Science Robbins and colleagues found that 52 minutes per day on average for the 467 volunteers spent gossipy, three quarters of this gossip is neutral in fact they were. One subject, for example, spoke of someone who has watched a lot of movies to keep you informed. “It ‘been a bit’ boring,” Robbins says “not slippery and negative” at all. Only a small part of the discussions analyzed – about 15% – was negative gossip (again was also positive when gossip lesser extent only 9%) as a. So, if it is true that people spend a considerable amount of time talking about their colleagues who often Chatter is benign. Why do people gossip? Some researchers argue that gossip helped our ancestors to survive. evolutionary psychologists Robin Dunbar done before idea pioneers engage the comparison to gossip Preparing primates as a means of binding. Instead, fleas and dirt collecting bind together, Ludden says, we are talking now, this is “where gossip is because talk talking mostly about other people and convey social information.” Clapping, says Dunbar work that gives people the opportunity to gain valuable information to disseminate to very large social networks. “We were not in the discussion of these social and personal problems [] can deal, we would not be able to get the types of companies that we do,” he explained in a 2003 document the review of General Psychology published. “Gossip in this sense plays a number of different roles in the maintenance of social functional groups through time.” “We are much more social [of our evolutionary ancestors],” says Ludden, “so that it can be very useful to get information about people [other] when the network is too big to be seen by them” see some gossip scientists like cultural learning test and provides moments of teaching and provides examples of what people socially acceptable -. and what does not, for example, if someone speaks volumes cheating in a community or social environment and people start talking about that person in a negative way Robbins should warn others collective criticism from the consequences of fraud. And when the word near inevitably slips back to the source of gossip, you can “is used to keep people under control, morally speaking,” said Robbins. What happens physiologically when people gossip? In a study published in 2015 in social neuroscience, scientists have seen in brain imaging of men and women like gossip you hear positive and negative about themselves, their best friends and celebrities. People listening gossip – good and bad – it’s about you, and negative gossip in general showed more activity in the prefrontal cortex of their brain that are critical to our ability to navigate complex social behaviors. This activity showed the subjects of gossip and intuition to respond. The authors say that this is related positively seen by others and socially attuned to our request, regardless of whether this reflects what we really feel. The study also found that the caudate nucleus, a reward center in the brain that is activated in response to negative gossip about celebrities; Topics seemed suggestive of celebrity scandals amused or be entertained. (The researchers also questioned how the subjects felt to study further what we showed them pictures of the brain. Not surprisingly, they thankfully were heard positive gossip about you and more annoyed negative listening to gossip about himself as about the other hear gossip over. So) may, gossip good for you? “People think they are really resistant gossip than anything else, but bad behavior,” says Robbins. And Feinberg notes that certain types of damage that gossip, like gossip should be avoided, which is purely harmful, and has no more purpose – such as the media comments about someone’s appearance. In such a scenario, “you’re not going to learn anything,” said Robbins. “No one benefits.” There is also a physiological distinction between active and passive participation in gossip. Matthew Feinberg, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, and colleagues explored this in a study published in 2012 in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In subjects over anti-social behavior of another person or of an injustice felt their heart rate increases. If they were able, actively and he brought down the heart rate to gossip about the person or the situation, on the other hand, calmed. Gossip says Feinberg act of “helping the body to calm down.” In addition, Feinberg has research shown that gossip from spreading important information to promote cooperation. “When people say, your reputation precedes, ‘it is because I’ve heard rumors about this person,” he says, which’ can be very useful. ‘ This has meant the spread gossip or less correction you know not to be true does not pro-social benefits. Feinberg In another study, a group of Members participants identified that selfish stunning gossip and entered promptly. In the study, participants were divided into groups, and then each person was equal to a certain number of points, since small amounts of money. Each participant these points can contribute to their group – in this case, the points would equal doubled and redistributed – or keep them for themselves. Equipped with the knowledge of their colleagues decisions, participants were playing then the game over and over again in different groupings. Basically, you could inform their new groups because someone had contributed in previous years, and could vote someone who had selfishly excludes stunned by a lap. After the remaining participants the bad apples have been eliminated then to work more harmoniously with the situation and inflate their collective pot. People who were less than half of their points before increased their contributions by the end of the last lap, while those who had been much longer excluded after being allowed back in the game corresponds to less selfish behavior. Gossiping says something together about people relations. “To gossip, you need people to feel close,” says Stacy Torres, he investigated assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Francisco, the gossip in older adults. “There is an intimacy” for the experience and feel like you are on the same page on others, it is stressed. Research Torres’ found that gossip can ward off loneliness, while other studies have found can bond and closeness and is easier than a form of entertainment. So, keep talking. And if your conversation is gossip as inevitable, remember that some good can come out – with the right intentions, of course. Correction October 3 The original version of this story false information, the methodology of the research published in the journal Psychological Science Social and Personality in 2019. It is a meta-analysis of gossip as behavior, no study.
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