The omnipresence of workplace gossip makes understanding gossip processes imperative
to understand social life in organizations. Although gossip research has recently increased …

We review cross‐disciplinary research on gossip and integrate it with two streams of
theoretical scholarship: paradox theory and the communicative constitution of organization …

Timely access to data and information has always been the key to the success of every
business. A merchant who can find goods, before anyone else, at a lower price, may …

Recent experimental studies seem to concur that gossip is good for groups by showing that
gossip stems from prosocial motives to protect group members from non-cooperators. Thus …

Gossip, or sharing information about absent others, has been identified as an effective
solution to free rider problems in situations with conflicting interests. Yet, the information …

Gossip is universal, and multiple studies have demonstrated that it can have beneficial
group-level outcomes when negative reports help identify defectors or norm-violators …

Humans are often shown to cooperate with one another. Most of the mechanisms that foster
cooperation among humans rely on reputation, which itself relies on the acquisition of …

Sexual double standards are social norms that impose greater social opprobrium on women
versus men or that permit one sex greater sexual freedom than the other. This study …

Infidelity is the major cause of breakups and individuals with a history of infidelity are more
likely to repeat it, but may also present a greater opportunity for short-term sexual …

Previous research demonstrates that evolutionarily relevant stimuli (eg, snakes, angry
faces)“pop-out” of visual arrays, leading to faster and more accurate identification compared …