Are we really hard-wired to gossip? (Well, now I don’t feel so guilty.)
May I share something with you? Don’t tell anyone, ok? When it comes to the gossip see-saw, I’ve been on top, crashed to the bottom and had to balance very carefully right in the middle at times. All three on any given day, come to think of it. So it was with great relief and a bit of amusement that I read this Scientific American article, by Frank McAndrew: The Science of Gossip: Why We Can’t Stop Ourselves. (more…)
