"Gossip serves as a way to build bonds ... One day, during a casual evening gathering, a group of neighbours chat about their rents, and someone mentions how much they're paying for a similar ...

Gossip is all around us – at work, in your friend groups, and in celebrity-focused headlines – making it seemingly impossible to avoid participating in a bit of buzzy chit chat. But no matter ...

Subscribe today. Let’s admit it: We all gossip. You and your neighbor break down the details of the couple moving in next door. Your group chat is filled with the latest intel on your ex’s new ...

Or maybe you love it. Harmless gossip can be a way to make friends, to keep your group chat going. Good gossip makes you want to lean in. For example, I still remember being told that the hottest ...

"It makes you feel bad about yourself. It makes you feel momentarily meaningless." Add gossip to the mix, and the situation quickly becomes an even trickier psychological riddle. "Gossip has a bad ...

If you’re reading this, chances are close to 100 percent that you love to gossip — about celebrities, and maybe also about your neighbors, friends and coworkers, and their neighbors ...

The tea is piping hot. There’s no denying that everyone loves a good gossip sesh. And it turns out — spilling the tea to a friend is actually good for your mental health. Sure, gabbing gets a ...

Yet, at the ring of the phone or the ping of the group chat, our hearts leap at the hope of some enticing morsel, delivered hot. Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel ...

And he asked the guests “not to pepper the conversation with gossip and slander.” One day some bishops began to chat, ignoring the warning. St. Augustine was not pleased and exhorted them ...

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