Who Do We Tell and Whom Do We Tell On? Gossip as a Strategy for Status Enhancement

By Francis T. McAndrew, Emily Bell, C. García. 2007

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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How the Grapevine Keeps You in Line (2011, background): “As such, it is important to take a network approach to gossiping in future studies and examine how the full process of gossip affects group functioning (cf., Burt & Knez, 1996; Grosser et al., 2010; McAndrew et al., 2007).”
Age differences in women's tendency to gossip are mediated by their mate value (2012, background): “Similarly, McAndrew, Bell, and Garcia (2007) report that women were three times as likely as males to be interested in gossip about same-sex others, i.e. rivals, as they were in gossip about their own lovers.”
Is gossip power? The inverse relationships between gossip, power, and likability (2011, background): “Given that gossip is inherently related to informational power, the following question remains—are those who choose to relay positive/negative information about others perceived as more influential, powerful, and controlling of our behavior than those who do not? The study seeks to determine whether”
Evolutionary Perspectives on Workplace Gossip: Why and How Gossip Can Serve Groups (2010, background): “For example, in studies of gossip about strangers (e.g., celebrities) who are not part of their subjects’ personal networks, evolutionists (De Backer et al., 2007; McAndrew et al., 2007) find that people will tend to use stories about others to advance individual or self-serving interests.”
Gossip in the workplace and the implications for HR management: a study of gossip and its relationship to employee cynicism (2015, methodology): “Overall, the findings have enriched the understanding of the link between gossip and ECN over and above what we know from previous empirical studies of gossip (Kurland & Pelled, 2000; McAndrew et al., 2007).”
Who does what on Facebook? Age, sex, and relationship status as predictors of Facebook use (2012, background): “For example, the gossip studies by McAndrew, Bell, and Garcia (2007) and McAndrew and Milenkovic (2002) indicate that most people have a greater interest in gossip about samesex and same-age individuals, with women being especially interested in gossip about other women.”
Competitive reputation manipulation: Women strategically transmit social information about romantic rivals (2018, background): “Women report greater willingness than men to share gossip with their same-sex friends (McAndrew et al., 2007).”